# Barter Island Long Range Radar Station Airport (BTI / PABA)

**Barter Island Long Range Radar Station Airport** (IATA: BTI, ICAO: PABA) is a medium airport in Barter Island, Alaska, United States. It has one runway, 4,500 ft (1,372 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 5 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/paba

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BTI / PABA
- FAA: BTI
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Barter Island, Alaska, United States
- Elevation: 55 ft / 17 m
- Coordinates: 70.1340, -143.5820
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 4,500 ft / 1,372 m
- Instrument procedures: 2 approaches
- Passengers: 5,283 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-9/-8 · America/Anchorage
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter_Island_LRRS_Airport (7 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2789750
- Weather station: PABA · WMO 70086
- Ident: PABA

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07/25 | 4,500 ft / 1,372 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Gravel | 090° / 270° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 6,488 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 6,492 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 6,965 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 6,593 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 6,359 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 2,501 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 3,665 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 4,442 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 4,349 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 4,378 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 5,283 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

2 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [SCC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/pasc.md) Deadhorse Airport · United States · 114 mi / 184 km · Wright Air Service
- [FAI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/pafa.md) Fairbanks International Airport · United States · 384 mi / 618 km · Everts Air, Wright Air Service

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from BTI, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (2)

- 8V [Wright Air Service](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/wright-air-service) · 2
- 5V [Everts Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/everts-air) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 5K (2025) | #2,914 of 3,974 | #759 in North America | #547 in US |
| Longest runway | 4,500 ft / 1,372 m | =8,114 of 29,858 | =3,043 in North America | =2,509 in US |
| Elevation | 55 ft / 17 m | =38,954 of 43,403 | =17,663 in North America | =14,610 in US |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =2,326 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 30.800 |
| CNTR | ANCHORAGE CNTR | 120.600 |
| CTAF | CTAF | 126.200 |
| FSS | DEADHORSE RDO | 122.000 |
| RDO | RDO | 126.200 |

## Nearby airports

- [US-3040](https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-3040.md) Kaktovik South Airstrip · 2.2 mi / 3.6 km
- [US-3039](https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-3039.md) Brownlow Point Airport · 31 mi / 51 km
- [US-3041](https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-3041.md) Demarcation Bay Airfield · 35 mi / 56 km
- [FXM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fxm.md) Flaxman Island Airstrip · 57 mi / 92 km
- [PAAD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/paad.md) Point Thomson Airstrip · 64 mi / 102 km
- [AA50](https://dromopedia.com/airports/aa50.md) Point Thomson Sea Ice Airstrip · 65 mi / 105 km

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #46

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Barter Island LRRS Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barter_Island_LRRS_Airport&oldid=1364141400), revision of 14 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/paba/data