Homer Airport
HOM · PAHO · Homer, Alaska · Kenai Peninsula County · map
Homer Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles east of Homer, Alaska, 84 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 6,701 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HOM · ICAO PAHO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 84 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- November to March, every day, 4:00 am to 9:00 pm; April to October, every day, 6:00 am to 9:00 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
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Seward sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 6,701 × 100 ft | Asphalt, poor | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: localizer with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), right-hand traffic pattern, ant 31 ft high 522 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 74 ft high 2,269 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Hom and flight Service · Homer and rco | 123.6 | Homer |
| Hom and flight Service · Homer and rco | 121.5 | Homer |
| Hom and flight Service · Homer and rco | 122.2 | Homer |
| Homer and center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.9 | |
| Hom and automated weather (ASOS) · Hom and flight Service | 135.65 | Homer · Afis frequency 135.65. |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 907-202-8234.
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Aircraft registered in Homer from the FAA register
199 aircraft are registered to owners in Homer, Alaska: 150 piston singles, 27 helicopters, 17 turboprops, 3 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, 3 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
- Durg air carrier operations only.
- Prior permission required for air carrier operations more than 30 passenger seats in writing - amgr: 2320 kachemak DR. Homer; AK 99603.
- Activate malsf runway 04; approach lights (MALSR) runway 22; PAPI runway 04 and 22; high-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- Line of sight between runway ends NA.
- Sea birds and water fowl on and in the vicinity of airport durg spring and summer.
- General aviation transient parking south side of runway.
- Gravel road south side of runway closed to aircraft; tax NA.
- 365 feet unlgt tower 9 NM west.
- Paew may be on runway H24.
- Pattern altitude 800 feet above ground level for fixed wing aircraft; pattern altitude 600 feet above ground level and below for rotary aircraft.
- Runway condition, snow/ice rprt and removal, wildlife control or otr service available durg schedule maintenance hour; aft hour service - amgr.
- Taxiway D closed; taxiway a, B south and east closed to aircraft ovr 12500 LB.
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.