Ambler Airport
AFM · PAFM · Ambler, Alaska · Northwest Arctic County · map
Ambler Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile north of Ambler, Alaska, 293 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 01/19, is 4,000 feet of gravel and dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AFM · ICAO PAFM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 293 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Gravel and dirt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 2,400 × 60 ft | Gravel and dirt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 10 ft high 315 ft from the end
- Runway 19: trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.7 | |
| Kotzebue and center (remote transmitter) Low | 119.2 | |
| Ambler and rco | 122.0 | Ambler · Communications provided by kotzebue Flight Service on frequency 122.0 (Ambler rco). |
| Afm and aWOS-3P | 132.1 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-621-7610.
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Aircraft registered in Ambler from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Ambler, 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Activate PAPI runway 01; medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 and 10/28; windsock lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Crowns in center and no line of sight btw runway ends.
- Runway slopes uphill east to west appx 80 feet.
- Runway surface is compacted gravel, rock and dirt. Surface type listed as GRAVEL-DIRT.
- Runway surface is compacted gravel, rock and dirt. Surface type listed as GRAVEL-DIRT.
- Caribou in the vicinity of runway.
- Runway conditions not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -36C.
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.