Port Heiden Airport
PTH · PAPH · Port Heiden, Alaska · Lake and Peninsula County · map
Port Heiden Airport is a public-use airport, 6 miles northeast of Port Heiden, Alaska, 95 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 06/24, is 5,000 feet of gravel. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PTH · ICAO PAPH
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 95 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- On the chart
- Kodiak sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1949
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 5,000 × 100 ft | Gravel, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 4,000 × 100 ft | Gravel, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 24: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 14: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 32: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 | |
| Port Heiden Rco | 122.0 | Port Heiden |
| Port Heiden Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 132.9 | |
| Pth and aWOS-3P | 135.4 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-837-2406.
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Aircraft registered in Port Heiden from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Port Heiden, Alaska: 1 piston single. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 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
- Runways soft when wet; safety areas and taxiways prone to rutting.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 14; PAPI runway 06, 14, 24 and 32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 and 14/32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Maintenance duty hour 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
- Caribou in the vicinity of airport durg winter.
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.