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Alpine Airstrip Airport

AK15 · PALP · Nuiqsut, Alaska · North Slope County · map

Alpine Airstrip Airport is a private airport owned by Conocophillips Alaska, INC, 8 miles north of Nuiqsut, Alaska, 21 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 5,005 feet of gravel.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions

Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Alpine Airstrip Airport…

The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes
FAA AK15 · ICAO PALP
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner
Conocophillips Alaska, INC
Elevation
21 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Lights
runway lights see the remarks below
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Point Barrow sectional
In the FAA's files since
February 2000

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

0422N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
04/225,005 × 100 ftGravel, fairMedium-intensity lights
  • Runway 04: PAPI, four lights on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), tower on the approach
  • Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS)

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM122.8
Deadhorse and center (remote transmitter) Low/high134.4

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.

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

  • 40X80 feet runup pad 153 feet from threshold both ends. Runway operations prior permission required; runway used as aces road; psbl paew on runway.
  • Local weather use aqt automated weather (ASOS).
  • Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -33C.
  • All arrival rpt 10 MI final on the common traffic frequency.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Nuiqsut from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Nuiqsut, 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 · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal

2013-11-25ANC14CA012 · Douglas Dc-6 N100CE · accident · no injuries
2001-09-26ANC01LA146 · Douglas Dc-6B N867TA · accident · minor injuries

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.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AK15.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 3, 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.