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Wasilla Creek Airpark

05AK · Palmer, Alaska · Matanuska-Susitna County · map

Wasilla Creek Airpark is a private airport, 5 miles northwest of Palmer, Alaska, 645 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 2,000 feet of grass and gravel.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 05AK
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 645 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Anchorage sectional
In the FAA's files since: February 2000

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
01/19	2,000 × 100 ft	Grass and gravel

Runway 01: trees 50 ft high 20 ft from the end
Runway 19: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 20 ft high 20 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.8

Aircraft registered in Palmer from the FAA register

549 aircraft are registered to owners in Palmer, Alaska: 516 piston singles, 14 piston twins, 8 turboprops, 6 helicopters, 2 gliders. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC 110 Northern Aviation LLC 15 Wrangell Mountain Air INC 7 Fly Around Alaska LLC 7 Blue River Aviation LLC 6Togo Aviation Services LLC 4Glenn Air INC 4State of Alaska 3Ram Aviation LLC 3State of Alaska Dept of Fish and Game 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Gooding Lake Seaplane Base 2D3 · 3 nm southwest Niklason Lake Seaplane Base 4AK0 · 3 nm southwest Finger Lake Seaplane Base 99Z · 4 nm southwest Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal PAQ · 5 nm southeast Cottonwood Lake Seaplane Base 3H3 · 6 nm southwest Upper Wasilla Lake Seaplane Base 3K9 · 7 nm southwest Wasilla Lake Seaplane Base 5L6 · 8 nm southwest Butte Municipal AK1 · 10 nm southeast

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Palmer 549 aircraft · 516 piston singles, 14 piston twins, 8 turboprops
Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC 110 aircraft in town
Northern Aviation LLC 15 aircraft in town
Wrangell Mountain Air INC 7 aircraft in town
Fly Around Alaska LLC 7 aircraft in town

Record

Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,930 since 1982 · 829 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
Alaska 9,145 aircraft registered

Live

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Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 7, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.