Lakewood Airport
78AA · North Pole, Alaska · Fairbanks North Star County · map
Lakewood Airport is a private airport, 5 miles east of North Pole, Alaska, 540 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 1,600 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 78AA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 540 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- January 2010
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 1,600 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 06: right-hand traffic pattern, trees on the approach
- Runway 24: trees on the approach
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
- Provided pvt use only; all aircraft comply with assigned traffic pattern.
- All operations prior permission required - amgr or in writing: Lakewood loop amgr, 3978 Lakewood loop, northpole, AK 99705. Takeoffs 0700 - 2300 only.
- Unrelbl.
- Ctn: uncontrolled vehicles; road Xs runway east end.
- Comply with assigned traffic pattern.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of runway.
- Exp an X wind turb.
- Recommended otfc bfr landing.
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.