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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Also here
- cargo handling
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
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- Airport 1/2 MI north abndd mining camp.
- Land at own risk, airport inactive, not maintained.
- Runway marked by barrels.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Buck Creek from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Buck Creek, 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,932 since 1982 · 826 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 3 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,144 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AK98.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.