Lake Louise Airport
Z55 · PAAO · Lake Louise, Alaska · Matanuska-Susitna County · map
Lake Louise Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northeast of Lake Louise, Alaska, 2,480 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 2,900 feet of gravel. The FAA counts about 300 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Z55 · ICAO PAAO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 2,480 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Anchorage sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 27E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1958
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 2,900 × 60 ft | Gravel, excellent |
- Runway 13: right-hand traffic pattern, brush on the approach
- Runway 31: trees 32 ft high 1,049 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 300, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Lake Louise from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Lake Louise, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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 unmnt; recommended visual insp bfr landing.
- Red and green threshold reflectors; reflective white mkrs full length; reflective blue markers on taxiway.
- Red and green threshold reflectors; reflective white mkrs full length; reflective blue markers on taxiway.
- Radio unavailable to close FP.
- Winter maintenance NA.
- Ctn: Lake float plane act.
- Caribou in the vicinity of runway.
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.