Airway Airport
5AK3 · North Pole, Alaska · Fairbanks North Star County · map
Airway Airport is a private airport owned by Airway INC, 2 miles northeast of North Pole, Alaska, 480 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,550 feet of gravel.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5AK3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Airway INC
- Elevation
- 480 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 28E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1968
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 2,550 × 45 ft | Gravel |
- Runway 15: road 10 ft high 10 ft from the end
- Runway 33: trees 50 ft high 10 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 |
Aircraft registered in North Pole from the FAA register
155 aircraft are registered to owners in North Pole, Alaska: 145 piston singles, 6 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 3 turboprops, 1 helicopter. 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 · 2 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
- Transient tie down area NA.
- Runway 33 approach end.
- Packed snow winter months. Turnaround north and south end; midfield turnaround NA.
- Not mntnd; facility NA. runway condition unmnt; recommended visual insp bfr use.
- Ski eqpt operations durg fall, winter and spring.
- Ctn: operations from adjacent gravel pit, pond and timber trails runway.
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.