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Memory Lake Airport

5AK8 · Wasilla, Alaska · Matanuska-Susitna County · map

Memory Lake Airport is a private airport, 3 miles north of Wasilla, Alaska, 420 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 1,000 feet of asphalt.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA 5AK8
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 420 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: Anchorage sectional
Magnetic variation: 25E
In the FAA's files since: June 1977

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
03/21	1,000 × 22 ft	Asphalt

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.8

Aircraft registered in Wasilla from the FAA register

1,276 aircraft are registered to owners in Wasilla, Alaska: 1,178 piston singles, 41 helicopters, 28 piston twins, 12 turboprops, 5 weight-shift and powered parachutes. 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:

Pollux Aviation LTD 12 Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC 10 Aerospring Leasing LLC 8 Jmp Aircraft Services LLC Trustee 5 Alpha Kilo Aviation LLC 5Alaska Aerial Survey LLC 4Tailwind Aviation INC 3Cizek Joseph e 3Antler Aviation and Wildlife Service LLC 3Airborne Extreme LLC 3

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

Wasilla Lake Seaplane Base 5L6 · 3 nm south Upper Wasilla Lake Seaplane Base 3K9 · 3 nm southeast Lake Lucille Seaplane Base 4A3 · 4 nm south Cottonwood Lake Seaplane Base 3H3 · 4 nm southeast Wasilla Airport IYS · 5 nm southwest Finger Lake Seaplane Base 99Z · 5 nm east Island Lake Seaplane Base 29A · 5 nm west Niklason Lake Seaplane Base 4AK0 · 5 nm east

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Wasilla 1,276 aircraft · 1178 piston singles, 41 helicopters, 28 piston twins
Pollux Aviation LTD 12 aircraft in town
Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC 10 aircraft in town
Aerospring Leasing LLC 8 aircraft in town
Jmp Aircraft Services LLC Trustee 5 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

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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.