Hughes Airport
HUS · PAHU · Hughes, Alaska · Yukon-Koyukuk County · map
Hughes Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southwest of Hughes, Alaska, 299 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,381 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HUS · ICAO PAHU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 299 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1950
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,381 × 100 ft | Gravel, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: trees on the approach
- Runway 36: trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Bettles and center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 124.6 |
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Aircraft registered in Hughes from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Hughes, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway condition not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Snow removal operations during winter - monitor the common traffic frequency.
- South safety area soft and rutted.
- Taxiway a unlit.
- Taxiway a reflectors 36 inches tall.
- 150 feet an X 100 feet turn around north side of runway.
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.