Chuathbaluk Airport
9A3 · PACH · Chuathbaluk, Alaska · Bethel County · map
Chuathbaluk Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northeast of Chuathbaluk, Alaska, 244 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,401 feet of gravel and dirt. The FAA counts about 500 takeoffs and landings a year. About 182 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
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What is the airport code for Chuathbaluk Airport?
Its FAA code is 9A3, and its ICAO code is PACH.
Where is Chuathbaluk Airport?
It is 1 mile northeast of Chuathbaluk, Alaska, 244 feet above sea level.
How long is the runway at Chuathbaluk Airport?
Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,401 feet long, gravel and dirt.
Does Chuathbaluk Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
Are there flight schools at Chuathbaluk Airport?
One flight school, flying club or college flight programme is based within about 15 miles of it: Kuspuk School District. Compare them
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 9A3 · ICAO PACH
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 244 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Mc Grath sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1988
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,401 × 60 ft | Gravel and dirt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, berm 2 ft high 10 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left, brush 3 ft high 15 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Aniak and center (remote transmitter) Low | 118.15 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Aniak Airport (9 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Aniak Airport (9 nm west), Crooked Creek Airport (35 nm northeast).
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.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway condition unmnt; recommended visual insp bfr use.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 09 and 27; PAPI runway 09 and 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Frost heaves and sink holes runway ends and ramp.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -31C.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 500, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 500 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Chuathbaluk from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chuathbaluk, AK as the owner's town.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Kuspuk School District 4 aircraft · Aniak, 11 miles away
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 · 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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,930 since 1982 · 824 in the last ten years
- Kuspuk School District 4 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 2 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,145 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/9A3.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 October 29, 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.