KCQ

Chignik Lake Airport

FAA A7956.2550°N 158.7750°W50 ft / 15 mSmall airport
On the map
Chignik-Lake-Airport-diagram
Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Region · Public domain · Commons

Chignik Lake Airport (IATA: KCQ, FAA: A79) is a small airport in Chignik Lake, Alaska, United States. It opened in Sep 1974. It has one runway, 2,800 ft (853 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 1 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1974–1974
SEP 1974
OpenedChignik Lake Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
08/26101° / 281°
LENGTH2,800 ft853 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
1K
2K
736
442
797
231
434
551
790
855
1K
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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KCQ. From the Wikipedia article “Chignik Lake Airport” (revision of 16 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,290of 3,974 · #875 North America · #634 USLongest runway2,800 ft853 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=17,682of 29,823 · =7,480 North America · =6,326 USElevation50 ft15 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,137of 43,341 · =17,753 North America · =14,675 USAgeOpened 19742026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,986of 15,079 · =5,103 North America · =5,010 USRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record