Healy River Airport
HRR · PAHV · Healy, Alaska · Denali County · map
Healy River Airport is a public-use airport in Healy, Alaska, 1,275 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,910 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 9 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 1,300 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1,638 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HRR · ICAO PAHV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 1,275 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1950
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 2,910 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 25 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 33: trees 8 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Murphy Dome Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 120.9 | |
| Healy and rco | 122.4 | Healy |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 1,300, 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 Healy from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Healy, Alaska: 11 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 · 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
- Turbulent winds in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 - the common traffic frequency.
- Segmented circle 400 feet from RY33 thld 200 feet L of centerline.
- Runway 15/33 non-standard markings: thld marked by panels, cones and lights.
- Numerous cracks in asphalt with weeds and grass growing through surface up to 12 in tall.
- Runway condition not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Airport 2 SM southwest of usibelli mine.
- Railroad tracks 700 feet from thld 20 feet above runway elevation.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -14C.
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.
