Chicken Airport
CKX · PAAY · Chicken, Alaska · Southeast Fairbanks County · map
Chicken Airport is a public-use airport in Chicken, Alaska, 1,640 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 2,500 feet of gravel and dirt. It has fuel (car gas (mogas)).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CKX · ICAO PAAY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 1,640 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel
- car gas (mogas)
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Dawson sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 30E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1949
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 2,500 × 60 ft | Gravel and dirt, good |
- Runway 13: brush on the approach
- Runway 31: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Snow removal operations - mnt the common traffic frequency. |
| Taylor Mountain Rco | 121.35 | Taylor Mountain |
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Aircraft registered in Chicken from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Chicken, Alaska: 2 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway condition unmnt; recommended visual insp bfr landing.
- Threshold panels and cones.
- Threshold panels and cones.
- Dip in cntr; upslope to both ends.
- Ctn: fire crews and helicopter durg summer.
- Snow removal operations - mnt the common traffic frequency.
- Exp turb durg approach.
- Waterfowl on and in the vicinity of runway in summer.
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.