Kwethluk Airport
KWT · PFKW · Kwethluk, Alaska · Bethel County · map
Kwethluk Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile ssw of Kwethluk, Alaska, 25 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,199 feet of gravel. The FAA counts about 1,200 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3,499 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now PFKW · observed 2:56 pm AKDT (22:56 UTC), 35 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northwest (340°) at 11 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 38°F (3°C), dew point 28°F (-2°C)
- Altimeter 29.87 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR PFKW 062256Z AUTO 34011KT 10SM CLR 03/M02 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP116 T00331022 $
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA KWT · ICAO PFKW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 25 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Mc Grath sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1966
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,199 × 75 ft | Gravel, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, brush on the approach
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, brush on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Kwt and aWOS-3P | 120.000 | |
| Bethel and center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.2 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-868-7313.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 1,200, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Kwethluk from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Kwethluk, AK as the owner's town.
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
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; PAPI and runway end identifier lights runways 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Lights partially obscured by brush and grass.
- Heaves, ruts and erosion channels along runway surface.
- Ruts at runway ends.
- Runway condition not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to using.
- Numerous airports in the vicinity.
- Weeds in front of both PAPI indicators.
- Windsocks may be unreliable
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.