Wales Airport
IWK · PAIW · Wales, Alaska · Nome County · map
Wales Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northwest of Wales, Alaska, 26 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,990 feet of gravel. The FAA counts about 300 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1,128 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
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What is the airport code for Wales Airport?
Its FAA code is IWK, and its ICAO code is PAIW.
Where is Wales Airport?
It is 1 mile northwest of Wales, Alaska, 26 feet above sea level.
How long is the runway at Wales Airport?
Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,990 feet long, gravel.
Does Wales Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Wales Airport…
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.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA IWK · ICAO PAIW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 26 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Nome sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1954
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,990 × 75 ft | Gravel, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the right, road 15 ft high 600 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 123.0 | |
| Iwk and aWOS-3P | 118.525 | |
| Tin City Rco | 122.6 | Tin City · Communications provided by Nome Flight Service on frequency 122.6 (tin city rco). |
| Nome and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.3 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-664-3907.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Alaska · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Easterly winds may cause severe turbulence in vicinity of runway.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; PAPI and runway end identifier lights runways 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Wind sock light may be out of service.
- High terrain southeast through east.
- Runway conditions not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -26C.
- Wind sock lighting inoperative, wind sock may be missing
- Several runway lights broken.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 300, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 300 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Wales from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Wales, AK as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,932 since 1982 · 826 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 3 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,144 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IWK.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 3, 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.