Buck Creek Airport
AK98 · Buck Creek, Alaska · Nome County · map
Buck Creek Airport is a private airport, 1 mile north of Buck Creek, Alaska, 560 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 1,220 feet of gravel.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AK98
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 560 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Nome sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 1,220 × 70 ft | Gravel |
Aircraft registered in Buck Creek from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Buck Creek, 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
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- Airport 1/2 MI north abndd mining camp.
- Land at own risk, airport inactive, not maintained.
- Runway marked by barrels.
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.