Birch Creek Airport
Z91 · PAAR · Birch Creek, Alaska · Yukon-Koyukuk County · map
Birch Creek Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile nnw of Birch Creek, Alaska, 440 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 4,000 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Z91 · ICAO PAAR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 440 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Fairbanks sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1980
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Gravel, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: brush 4 ft high 105 ft from the end
- Runway 34: trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Birch Creek from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Birch Creek, 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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Snow removal operations - the common traffic frequency.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- 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.