Birchwood Airport
BCV · PABV · Birchwood, Alaska · Anchorage County · map
Birchwood Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles northwest of Birchwood, Alaska, 83 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 02L/20R, is 4,012 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BCV · ICAO PABV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 83 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1949
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02L/20R | 4,012 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 02R/20L | 1,802 × 50 ft | Asphalt and gravel, fair |
- Runway 02L: trees 71 ft high 613 ft from the end
- Runway 20R: VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 44 ft high 980 ft from the end
- Runway 20L: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 123.0 | |
| Birchwood and rco | 121.5 | Birchwood |
| Birchwood and rco | 122.3 | Birchwood |
| Birchwood and rco | 122.55 | Birchwood |
| Bcv and aWOS-3P | 135.55 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-621-7605.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Birchwood from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Birchwood, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 39 since 1982, 4 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Ctn: sailplane operations.
- Activate VASI runway 20R; medium-intensity runway lights runway 02L/20R - the common traffic frequency. Activate VASI runway 20R - 7 clicks.
- Ski/tundra tire runway.
- 600 feet asphalt runway 20L end; rmndr gravel.
- Road 10 feet from threshold air carriers centerline.
- Except ultralight; use L traffic east away from runways.
- Except ultralight; use L traffic east away from runways.
- Ctlg obs exceeds 45 degrees slp.
- Humps and ruts.
- Humps and ruts.
- Mid 1500 feet taxiway a dsgnd ultralight and ski/tundra tire equip runway; parl operations NA - seq on the common traffic frequency.
- Transient parking available; fee aft 24 hour.
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.