Dahl Creek Airport
DCK · PODC · Dahl Creek, Alaska · Northwest Arctic County · map
Dahl Creek Airport is a public-use airport, 10 miles southeast of Dahl Creek, Alaska, 260 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 4,780 feet of gravel. The FAA counts about 225 takeoffs and landings a year. About 7 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA DCK · ICAO PODC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 260 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 23E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1951
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 4,780 × 75 ft | Gravel, good |
- Runway 08: right-hand traffic pattern, brush on the approach
- Runway 26: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.7 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 225, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
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.
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Aircraft registered in Dahl Creek from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Dahl Creek, 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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- Northwest Arctic borough
- Grass growing on runway; dip forming approximately 250 feet from runway 26 thld and 2 in wide erosion channels developing from center line to south edge; runway no longer maintained.
- Caribou may be on runway.
- High terrain north.
- Airport not maintained; no snow removal; runway condition not monitored. Recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Runway 08/26 also used as a road.
- Wind sock damaged and not reliable, segmented circle and wind sock are overgrown with brush and trees
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.