Feather River Airport
3Z1 · Feather River, Alaska · Nome County · map
Feather River Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile west of Feather River, Alaska, 325 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 1,190 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3Z1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 325 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Nome sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1963
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 1,190 × 30 ft | Gravel, poor |
- Runway 12: brush on the approach
- Runway 30: road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Feather River from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Feather River, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- Controlling obstruction exceeds a 45 degree slope
- Terrain 24 feet higher than runway 30 threshold.
- Runway is very rough with loose rocks up to 14 in diameter on the runway surface. Brush up to 3 feet high growing on the runway.
- Numerous small rock piles 24 in dia an X 12 in high obscured by 18 in grass on runway landing surface.
- Higher gravel terrain/ridge east side runway 12/30; difficult to see from air.
- Runway 12/30 not maintained; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
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 5, 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.