St. George Airport
PBV · PAPB · St George, Alaska · Aleutians West County · map
St. George Airport is a public-use airport, 4 miles southwest of St George, Alaska, 128 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 4,982 feet of asphalt. The FAA counts about 156 takeoffs and landings a year. About 262 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now PAPB · observed 1:53 pm AKDT (21:53 UTC), 59 minutes ago
MVFR flyable but watch the ceiling and visibility
- Wind from the north (010°) at 8 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a broken layer at 2,200 feet, overcast at 2,800 feet
- Temperature 42°F (6°C), dew point 36°F (2°C)
- Altimeter 30.13 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 PAPB 062153Z AUTO 01008KT 330V040 10SM BKN022 OVC028 06/02 A3013 RMK AO2 RAB23E53 SLP191 P0001 T00560022 TSNO
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 PBV · ICAO PAPB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 128 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
- Dutch Harbor sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1992
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 4,982 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: localizer and glideslope, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), right-hand traffic pattern, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 29: hill 35 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 | |
| Saint Paul Island Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 119.1 | |
| Pribilof and rco | 122.5 | Pribilof |
| Pbv and automated weather (ASOS) | 135.45 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 907-560-7610.
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 156, 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.
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 St George from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list St George, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Seabird concentrations and wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate malsf runway 11; runway end identifier lights runway 29; PAPI runway 11; high-intensity runway lights runway 11/29; windsock - the common traffic frequency.
- Parl road extds 200 feet from runway end.
- Parl road extds 200 feet from R side of runway end.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds 45 degrees slope.
- Avoid flight below 1000 feet may 14 - dec 14 in the vicinity of state. George island with actv bird populations and coastal seal rookeries.
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.