Fort Yukon Airport
FYU · PFYU · Fort Yukon, Alaska · Yukon-Koyukuk County · map
Fort Yukon Airport is a public-use airport in Fort Yukon, Alaska, 447 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 5,000 feet of gravel and dirt.
Weather right now PFYU · observed 11:53 am AKDT (19:53 UTC), 3 minutes ago
IFR instrument conditions
- Wind from the north-northeast (030°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 2 miles
- Sky: a broken layer at 800 feet, overcast at 1,600 feet
- Weather: light snow, mist
- Temperature 30°F (-1°C), dew point 28°F (-2°C)
- Altimeter 29.68 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
SPECI PFYU 061953Z 03007KT 2SM -SN BR BKN008 OVC016 M01/M02 A2968 RMK AO2 CIG 007V011 P0000 $
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 FYU · ICAO PFYU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 447 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1947
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 5,000 × 100 ft | Gravel and dirt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: VASI, four boxes on the left, brush on the approach
- Runway 22: VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.5 | |
| Fort Yukon Rco | 122.05 | Fort Yukon · Communications provided by fairbanks Flight Service on frequency 122.05 (Fort Yukon rco). |
| Fyu and aWOS-3P | 125.8 | |
| Fort Yukon Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 135.0 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-621-7612.
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Aircraft registered in Fort Yukon from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Fort Yukon, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Float plane operations do not cross runway 04/22. Traffic pattern for hospital lake rmn northwest of airport.
- Activate malsf runway 22; VASI runway 04 and 22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- Departure commence at dthr.
- Line of sight between runway thresholds and waterlane NA; Monday the common traffic frequency spcly bfr departure.
- Snow removal operations mnt the common traffic frequency.
- Runway condition unmnt; recommended visual insp bfr landing.
- Birds in the vicinity of landfill 1/4 MI northwest of runway.
- Taxiway C reflectors 36 in; unlgt; closed durg winter.
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.