Mertarvik Airport guide

Mertarvik Airport (ICAO PAEW, FAA EWU) is a public-use gravel airstrip one mile west of Mertarvik, the new home of the Yup'ik village of Newtok on Nelson Island in western Alaska. Newtok moved to the site because erosion along the Ninglick River was claiming its old land. The airport sits at an elevation of 345 feet.

The airport has one gravel runway, 12/30, which is 3,300 feet long and 75 feet wide. There is no control tower and the field is unattended. The FAA record advises a visual inspection before use because runway condition is not monitored. Mertarvik has no road link to Bethel or the wider state, so the airstrip is how people, mail and freight reach the village.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities owns the airport through its Central Region. Before the permanent runway, the village relied on a repurposed road about 2,000 feet long and 35 feet wide, which pilots and residents called hazardous. No annual passenger or aircraft movement figures are published, and no scheduled airline service could be confirmed.