Unalakleet Airport
UNK · PAUN · Unalakleet, Alaska · Nome County · map
Unalakleet Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile north of Unalakleet, Alaska, 27 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 15/33, is 5,900 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA UNK · ICAO PAUN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 27 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Mc Grath sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 5,900 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 1,900 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: localizer with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 33: VASI, four boxes on the left, building 25 ft high 850 ft from the end
- Runway 27: brdg 20 ft high 690 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 123.0 | |
| Unalakleet and rco | 121.5 | Unalakleet |
| Unalakleet and rco | 122.3 | Unalakleet · Communications provided by Nome Flight Service on frequency 122.30 (Unalakleet rco). |
| Unk and aWOS-3P | 132.25 | |
| Unalakleet and center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 135.7 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 907-624-3051.
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Aircraft registered in Unalakleet from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Unalakleet, Alaska: 5 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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 · 19 since 1982, 2 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
- Emergency only.
- Established prior to 1959.
- 299 feet tower 2.4 NM east.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 33; high-intensity runway lights runway 15/33; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency. VASI runway 15 and 33 on continuously.
- Emergency only.
- Transient parking near Department of Transportation maintenance building and runway 27 threshold.
- 100 feet unlgt tower 0.4 NM north of threshold.
- Snow removal and deicing NA 4:00 pm to 8:00 am.
- Runway condition unmnt; recommended visual insp prior to landing.
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.