Whittier Airport
IEM · PAWR · Whittier, Alaska · Valdez-Cordova County · map
Whittier Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northwest of Whittier, Alaska, 39 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 1,480 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA IEM · ICAO PAWR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 39 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 25E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1974
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 1,480 × 60 ft | Gravel, fair |
- Runway 04: road on the approach
- Runway 22: brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Whittier from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Whittier, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- Approach to runway 22 over water. Distance from water to thld panels 205 feet.
- Wind indicator may be unreliable.
- No scheduled maintenance. No winter maintenance. Closed from first snowfall until after breakup.
- When available hourly weather reports from portage visitor center. 135.45. Located west side of portage pass.
- Runway condition not monitored. Recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 22 slopes up 2% from water.
- For takeoff use runway 04 only; first 130 feet of runway 04 unusable. Pile of large rocks located approach end runway 04. For landings use runway 22 only; go around unlikely.
- 30 feet trees, 45 feet each side of runway centerline, full length.
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.