Goose Bay Airport
Z40 · Goose Bay, Alaska · Matanuska-Susitna County · map
Goose Bay Airport is a public-use airport in Goose Bay, Alaska, 78 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 3,000 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Z40
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 78 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 25E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1949
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 3,000 × 75 ft | Gravel, fair |
- Runway 08: right-hand traffic pattern, road on the approach
- Runway 26: road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Goose Bay from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Goose Bay, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 27 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway condition unmntd; recommended visual insp bfr use.
- Runway end threshold panel.
- Runway end threshold panel.
- 808 feet lighted tower 11700 feet nnw of runway.
- Large military low altitude operations in the vicinity of R-2203, Goose Bay, birchwood and big lake airports. Military aircraft mnt mult the common traffic frequency frequency. See current anchorage VFR tac insert and cntr NOTAMs.
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.