Chignik Lake Airport
A79 · Chignik Lake, Alaska · Lake and Peninsula County · map
Chignik Lake Airport is a public-use airport in Chignik Lake, Alaska, 50 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,800 feet of gravel. The FAA counts about 720 takeoffs and landings a year. About 438 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
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What is the airport code for Chignik Lake Airport?
Its FAA code is A79.
Where is Chignik Lake Airport?
It is in Chignik Lake, Alaska, 50 feet above sea level.
How long is the runway at Chignik Lake Airport?
Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,800 feet long, gravel.
Does Chignik Lake Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
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 A79
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 50 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cold Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,800 × 60 ft | Gravel, poor |
- Runway 08: brush on the approach
- Runway 26: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Port Heiden Airport (43 nm north).
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
- Safety areas rough, rutted and uneven.
- 15 feet brush alg runway. 150 feet hill south parl to runway. Down slope to west.
- Brush abm threshold.
- Brush abm threshold.
- Soft and rutted; ireg marked west cones.
- 4 in rocks; crown NA full length.
- Runway condition unmnt recommended visual insp bfr use.
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 720, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 500 |
| general aviation, travelling | 200 |
| general aviation, local | 20 |
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 Chignik Lake from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chignik Lake, AK as the owner's town.
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.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,932 since 1982 · 826 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 4 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/A79.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 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.