Kenai Municipal
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Kenai Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Kenai in Kenai, Alaska, 100 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 02L/20R, is 7,855 feet of asphalt. It has 1 water landing area. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 47 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 67,252 takeoffs and landings a year. About 75,259 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now PAEN · observed 2:25 pm AKDT (22:25 UTC), 27 minutes ago
IFR instrument conditions
- Wind from the north-northwest (340°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 2.5 miles
- Sky: a few clouds at 600 feet, a broken layer at 1,700 feet, overcast at 2,600 feet
- Weather: rain, mist
- Temperature 46°F (8°C), dew point 43°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 29.67 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 9:36 am AKDT (17:36 UTC), good until Wed 10:00 am AKDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 10:00 am AKDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the north-northwest at 5 knots, visibility 3 miles, mist, showers nearby, a broken layer at 1,000 feet, overcast at 2,000 feet MVFR
- From Tue 6:00 pm AKDT (02:00 UTC): wind light and variable, visibility more than 6 miles, showers nearby, scattered clouds at 2,500 feet, a broken layer at 5,000 feet VFR
- From Tue 10:00 pm AKDT (06:00 UTC): wind from the south-southeast at 2 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 700 feet, a broken layer at 2,500 feet MVFR
- From Wed 7:00 am AKDT (15:00 UTC): wind from the east at 4 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, showers nearby, a few clouds at 1,000 feet, overcast at 2,500 feet MVFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
SPECI PAEN 062225Z 34005KT 2 1/2SM RA BR FEW006 BKN017 OVC026 08/06 A2967 RMK AO2 RAB21 P0001 T00780061
TAF PAEN 061736Z 0618/0718 33005KT 3SM BR VCSH BKN010 OVC020 FM070200 VRB04KT P6SM VCSH SCT025 BKN050 FM070600 15002KT P6SM FEW007 BKN025 FM071500 10004KT P6SM VCSH FEW010 OVC025
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ENA · ICAO PAEN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Kenai
- Elevation
- 100 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 10:00 pm may 1 - sep 30; 7:00 am to 9:00 pm oct 1 - apr 30
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runways 5
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02L/20R | 7,855 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 02W/20W | 4,600 × 240 ft | Water, good | |
| 02R/20L | 1,980 × 75 ft | Gravel, good | |
| H1 | 55 × 55 ft | Asphalt | |
| H2 | 55 × 55 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 02L: VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 280 ft, 7,575 ft available for landing
- Runway 20R: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 7,575 ft available for landing
- Runway 20W: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower · Ena and flight Service | 121.3 | Kenai · Laa frequency 121.3 when the control tower closed. |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Ena and automated weather (ASOS) | 133.35 | Kenai |
| Ground | 118.75 | Kenai |
| Ena and flight Service | 121.5 | Kenai |
| Ena and flight Service | 122.65 | Kenai |
| Kenai and center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 125.7 | Kenai |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 907-283-6513.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 67,252, 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.
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 Kenai from the FAA register
162 aircraft are registered to owners in Kenai, Alaska: 146 piston singles, 10 turboprops, 3 helicopters, 2 piston twins, 1 drone. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 28 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
- Transient and commercial tie down slips available end of water canal.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 02L; VASI runway 02L and 20R - the common traffic frequency. When tower closed activate and incr intst high-intensity runway lights runway 02L/20R - Kenai Flight Service. When tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 20R - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: runway 02R/20L and 02W/20W pattern altitude 500 feet above ground level.
- Runway 02R/20L not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Closed to operations NOV-APR. runway 02W/20W not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats. Noise abatement: 02W arrival and 20W departure make fnl approach and cross wind turns south of beachline unless authorized by air traffic control. Water landing area and taxiway chnl not vsb from the control tower.
- Outlined with cones.
- Outlined with cones.
- Transient parking south terminal ramp; helicopter parking north terminal ramp. Landing fee ovr 4000 LB.
- Birds 10 NM radius SPRING-FALL.
- Ptns of terminal ramp, taxiway G and H not vsb from the control tower.
- Spb controlled by Kenai the control tower durg operations hours. When Kenai the control tower closed weather available from Kenai ATIS or Kenai Flight Service. Noise abatement procedure in effect - amgr.
- Kenai Flight Service local - 283-7211.
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.