Quartz Creek / Kougarok Airport
5QC · Quartz Creek, Alaska · Nome County · map
Quartz Creek / Kougarok Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles south of Quartz Creek, Alaska, 416 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 2,960 feet of gravel and dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5QC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 416 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Nome sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 18E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1952
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 2,960 × 64 ft | Gravel and dirt, good |
- Runway 12: brush on the approach
- Runway 30: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Quartz Creek from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Quartz Creek, 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.
- Runway condition not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Runway 12/30 edge and threshold marked by 30 in orange cones.
- Washouts 350 feet from runway 12 thsd north half of runway has humps and dips with rocks to 4 inches, north 1000 feet grown over with grass to 12 inches, runway not maintained.
- Runway has several heaves and swales along the full length of runway. Has loose gravel and rocks up to 7 in diameter on the runway surface.
- No line of sight between ends of runway.
- Thld panels broken and faded.
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.