Point Lay Lrrs Airport
PIZ · PPIZ · Point Lay, Alaska · Barrow County · map
Point Lay Lrrs Airport is a public-use airport owned by the US Gov 11Tcw/Lgo Elemdorf, 1 mile south of Point Lay, Alaska, 28 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 4,500 feet of gravel.
Weather right now PPIZ · observed 10:56 am AKDT (18:56 UTC), 58 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the northeast (050°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: overcast at 3,500 feet
- Temperature 25°F (-4°C), dew point 23°F (-5°C)
- Altimeter 30.06 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 PPIZ 061856Z AUTO 05007KT 10SM OVC035 M04/M05 A3006 RMK AO2 SNE1759 SLP182 P0000 T10391050 FZRANO
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 PIZ · ICAO PPIZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- US Gov 11Tcw/Lgo Elemdorf
- Elevation
- 28 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Parking
- hangar
- On the chart
- Cape Lisburne sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1960
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 4,500 × 100 ft | Gravel, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, four lights on the left, road 15 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 24: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 | |
| Cape Lisburne Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 119.65 | |
| Point Lay Rco | 122.4 | Point Lay · Communications provided by Barrow Flight Service on frequency 122.40 (Point Lay rco). |
| Piz and aWOS-3P | 135.65 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-833-3112.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Point Lay from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Point Lay, 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.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 06 and 24; PAPI runway 06 and 24; medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -33C.
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.