Wrangell Airport guide

Wrangell Airport (ICAO PAWG) is a state-owned public-use airport on Wrangell Island in the Alaska Panhandle. It sits about one nautical mile northeast of the town's central business district, at an elevation of 49 feet. Wrangell has no road connection to the outside world, so the airport and the Alaska Marine Highway ferry are the two ways in and out.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities operates the field. A single asphalt runway, 10/28, measures about 6,000 by 150 feet and is grooved. Alaska Airlines flies scheduled jet service on Boeing 737-700 aircraft, with routes toward Ketchikan, Petersburg and Juneau and onward connections to Seattle and Anchorage. Alaska Seaplanes also serves the airport with small aircraft on short Southeast Alaska hops.

Traffic is a mix of air taxi, general aviation and scheduled commercial flights. The FAA counted 10,425 aircraft operations in the 12 months ending January 2012, about 28 a day, and the airport falls in the primary commercial service nonhub category.