CKX

Chicken Airport

ICAO PAAY64.0665°N 141.9513°W1,640 ft / 500 mSmall airport
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Chicken Airport (IATA: CKX, ICAO: PAAY) is a small airport in Chicken, Alaska, United States. It opened in Nov 1949. It has one runway, 2,500 ft (762 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 32 passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1949–1949
NOV 1949
OpenedChicken Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
13/31157° / 337°
LENGTH2,500 ft762 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
51
41
103
56
58
78
71
26
32
151618202122232425

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
25 km50 km75 km100 km25 mi50 miTKJ · Tok Junction Airport · 60 mi / 96 kmTKJCKX

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers32 (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=3,770of 3,974 · #983 North America · #729 USLongest runway2,500 ft762 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=20,451of 29,823 · =9,061 North America · =7,802 USElevation1,640 ft500 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=10,942of 43,341 · =4,786 North America · =3,621 USAgeOpened 19492026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,461of 15,079 · =2,337 North America · =2,277 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