Merrill Field
MRI · PAMR · Anchorage, Alaska · Anchorage County · map
Merrill Field is a public-use airport, 2 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, 143 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MRI · ICAO PAMR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 143 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 4,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 2,640 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 2,000 × 60 ft | Asphalt and gravel, good |
- Runway 08: PAPI, four lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, pole 41 ft high 846 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 17: VASI, two boxes on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, building 31 ft high 437 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, pole 27 ft high 331 ft from the end
- Runway 23: fence 7 ft high 250 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 126.0 | Merrill |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Mri and automated weather (ASOS) | 124.25 | Merrill |
| Ground | 121.7 | Merrill |
| Tower (secondary) | 127.55 | Merrill |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace | 119.1 | Merrill |
| Mri and vot | 111.0 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 907-271-5277.
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 Anchorage from the FAA register
2,530 aircraft are registered to owners in Anchorage, Alaska: 2,052 piston singles, 211 turboprops, 120 helicopters, 82 piston twins, 28 business jets. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 170 since 1982, 8 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 runway end identifier lights runway 08, 17, 26, 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 and 17/35 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 08, 26 and 35; VASI runway 17 operates continuously.
- Pattern altitude for aircraft 105 kts or less 900 feet above sea level. Aircraft greater than 105 kts 1200 feet above sea level.
- Used seasonally as snow runway. Recommended ski equip aircraft use to minimize wheel rutting.
- First 60 feet paved; rmng gravel.
- Birds and seagulls on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Prior permission required ovr 12500 LB.
- All runway and taxiway lights nonstd height.
- 1-8 feet snow berms adjacent to runways and taxiways durg winter.
- When the control tower closed contact Merrill weather - the common traffic frequency or 271-4355.
- Flight planning in Anchorage bowl area - rco 122.55.
- Nonmovement area aircraft contact gnd control bfr tax.
- Ptns of taxiway C between taxiway south and north and ptns of taxiway Q not visibility from tower.
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.