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Fire Island Airport

6AK5 · Anchorage, Alaska · Anchorage County · map

Fire Island Airport is a private airport owned by the US Govt Dot FAA, 7 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, 55 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,000 feet of gravel.

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

The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes
FAA 6AK5
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
Owner
US Govt Dot FAA
Elevation
55 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Anchorage sectional
Magnetic variation
25E

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1836N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
18/362,000 × 60 ftGravel

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel
none reported
Also here
cargo handling

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Ted Stevens Anchorage International (5 nm east), Lake Hood Airport (6 nm east), Alaska Regional Hospital Heliport (10 nm east), Merrill Field (10 nm east).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Ted Stevens Anchorage International (5 nm east), Lake Hood Airport (6 nm east), Alaska Regional Hospital Heliport (10 nm east), Merrill Field (10 nm east).

The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Alaska · avgas.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Anchorage from the FAA register

2,528 aircraft are registered to owners in Anchorage, Alaska: 2,047 piston singles, 214 turboprops, 121 helicopters, 82 piston twins, 28 business jets. 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:

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Alaska.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Fuel and service companies in Anchorage, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

Charter operators and airlines based in Anchorage (12 of 63):

  • Grant Aviation INC 57 aircraft on the certificate
  • Ryan Air, INC. 25 aircraft on the certificate Ryan Air is an Alaska Bush carrier operating scheduled and charter freight and passenger services to over 80 villages across Western Alaska from eight hubs.
  • Rusts Flying Service INC 23 aircraft on the certificate Rust's Flying Service is a seaplane operator based at Lake Hood in Anchorage, Alaska, offering flightseeing tours and air charters throughout Alaska.
  • Pathfinder Aviation LLC 22 aircraft on the certificate Pathfinder Aviation is a helicopter operator based in Anchorage, Alaska, providing remote aviation operations and logistics services worldwide.
  • Alpha Aviation LLC 20 aircraft on the certificate Alpha Aviation LLC is a helicopter operator based in Anchorage, Alaska, providing utility, industrial, and charter services throughout Alaska.
  • Elevate Aviation LLC 20 aircraft on the certificate Elevate Jet is a private jet charter operator based in Anchorage, Alaska, offering on-demand charter flights, aircraft management, and maintenance services.
  • ACE Air ACE Air Cargo (Alaska Central Express INC) 20 aircraft on the certificate ACE Air Cargo is Alaska's largest scheduled all-cargo carrier, operating daily air cargo flights to and from Anchorage serving many Alaskan communities.
  • TransNorthern LLC 11 aircraft on the certificate TransNorthern Aviation operates passenger and cargo flights from Anchorage, Alaska.
  • Katmai Air, LLC 10 aircraft on the certificate Katmai Air operates scheduled and charter flights across Alaska from bases in Anchorage and King Salmon.
  • Fly 4 You INC 8 aircraft on the certificate
  • J and M Alaska Air Tours INC 7 aircraft on the certificate
  • Scott Air Express Desert Splash Adventures Alaska Seaplanes Seaport Airlines Island Air Express (Scott Air, LLC) 7 aircraft on the certificate

Repair stations in Anchorage (12 of 25, all of them):

Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Hiring here openings at the schools, FBOs, operators and repair stations at or in the town of this airport, from their own websites

Every aviation opening.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town
Who works here
Record
Around it

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/6AK5.json.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 10, 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.