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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 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
On the chart
Cold Bay sectional
Magnetic variation
19E
In the FAA's files since
September 1974

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

0826N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
08/262,800 × 60 ftGravel, poor
  • Runway 08: brush on the approach
  • Runway 26: brush on the approach

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)122.8

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Aircraft registered in Chignik Lake from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Chignik Lake, AK as the owner's town.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Chignik Lagoon Airport KCL · 9 nm eastChignik Bay Z78 · 13 nm eastChignik Airport AJC · 14 nm eastPerryville Airport PEV · 25 nm southwest

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

  • 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.

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.