Chenega Bay Airport
C05 · PFCB · Chenega, Alaska · Valdez-Cordova County · map
Chenega Bay Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northeast of Chenega, Alaska, 69 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,000 feet of gravel. About 40 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C05 · ICAO PFCB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 69 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Seward sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1994
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,000 × 75 ft | Gravel, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: brush on the approach
- Runway 34: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency. |
| C05 and aWOS-3P | 129.05 | |
| Middleton Island Center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.6 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-573-5002.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year
No operations count is published for this 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.
Aircraft registered in Chenega from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chenega, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Rdo control.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Reflective cones and lights.
- Reflective cones and lights.
- Shoulders and safety areas soft when wet; water ponds in safety areas both ends.
- Rapidly rising trrn north, east and west quad.
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.