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) and about 309 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The receiver network heard 13 different aircraft arrive or depart here in the last seven days. The FAA counts about 70,188 takeoffs and landings a year.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Birchwood Airport?
Its FAA code is BCV, and its ICAO code is PABV.
Where is Birchwood Airport?
It is 2 miles northwest of Birchwood, Alaska, 83 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at Birchwood Airport?
The longest of its 2 runways, 02L/20R, is 4,012 feet long.
Does Birchwood Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Birchwood Airport?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas.
Are there flight schools at Birchwood Airport?
5 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Midnite Sun Flying Club LLC and Alpha Kilo Aviation LLC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Birchwood Airport?
16 pilot examiners and 15 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
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 Birchwood Airport…
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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 and services
- 100LL avgas; the services card below
- 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.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- charter flights, gliders, flight instruction, aircraft rental
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Wasilla Airport (9 nm north), Alaska Regional Hospital Heliport (15 nm southwest), Merrill Field (16 nm southwest), Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal (16 nm northeast).
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
- 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.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
Within ten miles
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 301 |
| multi-engine | 6 |
| helicopters | 1 |
| other | 1 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 70,188, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| general aviation, travelling | 35,044 |
| general aviation, local | 35,044 |
| military | 100 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Birchwood from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Birchwood, AK as the owner's town.
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:
- Midnite Sun Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Eagle River, 5 miles away
- Alpha Kilo Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · Wasilla, 11 miles away Alpha Kilo Aviation LLC is a flight school based in Wasilla, Alaska and operating seasonally in the Phoenix area (Ak-Chin Regional Airport, Maricopa, Arizona).
- Alaska Star Flying Club 2 aircraft · Wasilla, 11 miles away
- Mat-Su Helicopter Training LLC 1 aircraft · Wasilla, 11 miles away
- Northern Peaks Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · Wasilla, 11 miles away
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.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
16 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 15 for private pilot, 13 for commercial and instrument, 9 for airline transport pilot, 12 for flight instructor, 3 for sport pilot, 3 for type ratings; 13 for airplanes, 10 for multi-engine airplanes, 9 for seaplanes, 3 for helicopters, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 15 aviation medical examiners, 2 mechanic examiners, 4 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 3 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 8 engineering representatives, 1 aircraft dispatcher examiner, 8 aircrew program designees.
- Dean Stewart Paulson private pilot; airplanes, seaplanes · Anchorage FSDO · Eagle River, AK (4 nm) · (907) 230-9628 · [email protected]
- Martin Eric Hinshaw private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes, multi-engine seaplanes · Alaska Flight Academy · Wasilla, AK (9 nm) · (907) 947-4052 · [email protected]
- Ray Larue Hodges private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Wasilla, AK (9 nm) · (907) 232-6102 · [email protected]
- Stacia Joyce private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals; helicopters · wasilla, AK (9 nm) · (907) 350-1001 · [email protected]
- Rex Lee Gray private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Palmer, AK (16 nm) · (907) 841-7116 · [email protected]
- Brenton Kennedy private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, sport pilot, type ratings; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, multi-engine seaplanes · anchorage, AK (20 nm) · (907) 240-8707 · [email protected]
- Carol Zerbe private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Anchorage, AK (20 nm) · (907) 350-6607 · [email protected]
- Daniel Jonathan Larocque private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Anchorage, AK (20 nm) · (225) 503-5769 · [email protected]
All 57 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 39 since 1982 · 4 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,930 since 1982 · 826 in the last ten years
- Midnite Sun Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Alpha Kilo Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · flight school
- Alaska Star Flying Club 2 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,141 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/BCV.json.
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 26, 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.