Eareckson AS Airport
SYA · PASY · Shemya, Alaska · Aleutian Islands County · map
Eareckson AS Airport is a private airport owned by U S Air Force in Shemya, Alaska, 98 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 10,004 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SYA · ICAO PASY
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- U S Air Force
- Elevation
- 98 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 6:00 pm to 0300z++ closed wkend and holidays
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- W Aleutian Isls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1949
Runway

For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 10,004 × 150 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 28: localizer and glideslope, PAPI, four lights on the left, SALSF
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 127.2 | |
| Shemya and center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 119.1 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- hangars
- Also here
- cargo handling
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Alaska · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 352.050 uhf.
- Customs unavailable.
- Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) index 7C
- Hills 8 NM west 662 feet above sea level.
- Activate ALSF1 runway 10; salsf runway 28; high-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 10 and 28 operates continuously.
- 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
- Christina bolle
- D317-392-3362/C907-392-3362.
- MB100 (B) 1850 feet unusable.
- BAK12(B) 4450 feet.
- Ctn: 150 feet turn radius maximum; tow bar and personnel for large commercial aircraft rqrg gtr than 150 feet turnaround NA; 25 feet shoulders emergency only WI group index and gross loads. No overrun; sheer drop offs.
- With 25 feet shoulders.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Shemya from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Shemya, AK as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,930 since 1982 · 824 in the last ten years
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/SYA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.
