Hoonah Airport
HNH · PAOH · Hoonah, Alaska · Angoon County · map
Hoonah Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southeast of Hoonah, Alaska, 22 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 3,367 feet of asphalt.
Weather right now PAOH · observed 1:56 pm AKDT (21:56 UTC), 10 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west-northwest (290°) at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a broken layer at 3,700 feet, overcast at 6,000 feet
- Weather: light rain
- Temperature 50°F (10°C), dew point 49°F (9°C)
- Altimeter 29.93 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)
METAR PAOH 062156Z AUTO 29003KT 10SM -RA BKN037 OVC060 10/09 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP136 P0002 T01000094 $
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 HNH · ICAO PAOH
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 22 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Juneau sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1966
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 3,367 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 105 ft high 1,080 ft from the end
- Runway 24: trees 18 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.7 | |
| Hoonah and rco | 122.35 | Hoonah |
| Hnh and aWOS-3P | 132.05 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-202-8236.
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 Hoonah from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Hoonah, Alaska: 2 piston singles. 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 · 5 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
- Airport condition not mnt; maintenance on ireg basis; daylight operations and prior visual inspn recommended.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 06 and 24; PAPI runway 06; medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Safety area 150 feet an X 3600 feet.
- Non-standard; ireg spaced runway edge lights.
- Non-standard; ireg spaced runway edge lights.
- Runway 06 PAPI unusable beyond 2 degrees R of centerline; PAPI unusable beyond 5.8 NM; PAPI does not provide obstruction clnc beyond 5.8 NM.
- Wildlife in the vicinity of runway.
- High trrn all quads.
- Paja onto runway; taxiway and aircraft parking apron prohibited.
- Alert: see genot - enroute the common traffic frequency frequencies.
- Alert: unlighted 6 cable zipline 2 NM northwest from 200 - 1600 feet.
- Closed to air carrier operations over 30 passenger seats.
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.