Aleknagik /New Airport
5A8 · Aleknagik, Alaska · Dillingham County · map
Aleknagik /New Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile east of Aleknagik, Alaska, 63 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,030 feet of gravel. The FAA counts about 930 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5A8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 63 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Kodiak sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1982
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 2,030 × 60 ft | Gravel, good |
- Runway 15: tree on the approach
- Runway 33: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 930, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Aleknagik from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Aleknagik, Alaska: 2 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.
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
- Runway condition not monitored; recommended visual inspection prior to use. No snow removal.
- The windsock is faded and below the tree line; may be unrel.
- Runway 15/33 marked with orange 3 feet cones.
- Be alert: float planes landing and depg between north and south shores on the Aleknagik in the areas of Aleknagik lodge and mosquito point.
- Be alert: runway elevd above srndg trrn; no safety areas at either thld.
- Runway slopes down toward departure end of runway 15.
- Trees on approach of runway 15, pwr lines on approach of runway 33.
- Loose rocks on runway.
- Segmented circle is overgrown and unuseable
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.