Beaver Airport
WBQ · PAWB · Beaver, Alaska · Yukon-Koyukuk County · map
Beaver Airport is a public-use airport in Beaver, Alaska, 365 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,934 feet of gravel and dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA WBQ · ICAO PAWB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 365 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1949
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,934 × 75 ft | Gravel and dirt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: trees on the approach
- Runway 23: trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Fort Yukon Rco | 122.05 | Fort Yukon |
| Yukon River Bridge Rco | 122.15 | Yukon River Bridge |
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Aircraft registered in Beaver from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Beaver, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway condition not monitored; recommend visual inspection prior to landing.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Snow removal operations during WINTER--MONITOR the common traffic frequency.
- Active road transits runway 1000 feet FR runway 05 thld.
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.