Shirley Lake Airport
AK90 · Willow, Alaska · Matanuska-Susitna County · map
Shirley Lake Airport is a private airport, 2 miles south of Willow, Alaska, 185 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 1,800 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AK90
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 185 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 25E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1977
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 1,800 × 30 ft | Grass |
- Runway 16: trees 20 ft high 120 ft from the end
- Runway 34: trees 60 ft high 140 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Wasilla Airport (19 nm southeast), Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal (31 nm east), Alaska Regional Hospital Heliport (33 nm south), Merrill Field (33 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Willow Airport (2 nm east), Wasilla Airport (19 nm southeast), Birchwood Airport (26 nm southeast), Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal (31 nm east).
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
- Trees on both sides of runway approx 50' from centerline.
- Moose on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Road crosses aer 34.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Willow from the FAA register
127 aircraft are registered to owners in Willow, Alaska: 120 piston singles, 7 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Alaska.
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:
- Brooks Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Willow, 2 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Willow:
- Andrew Airways, Inc 3 aircraft on the certificate Andrew Airways, Inc.
- Brooks Flyers LLC. 2 aircraft on the certificate
- Arctic Air, Inc 1 aircraft on the certificate Arctic Air, Inc.
- Two In the Bush Aviation Services 1 aircraft on the certificate
- Legends LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate
- Filkill, David B 1 aircraft on the certificate
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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Willow 127 aircraft · 120 piston singles, 7 helicopters
- Legends LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Andrew Airways INC 2 aircraft in town
- Andrew Airways, Inc 3 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Brooks Flyers LLC. 2 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Arctic Air, Inc 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Two In the Bush Aviation Services 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Brooks Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,932 since 1982 · 826 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 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/AK90.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.