Central Airport

ICAO PACE65.5738°N 144.7807°W937 ft / 286 mSmall airport

Central Airport (IATA: CEM, ICAO: PACE) is a small airport in Central, Alaska, United States. It opened in Sep 1947. It has one runway, 2,782 ft (848 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 283 passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1947–1947

SEP 1947

OpenedCentral Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26103° / 283° · LIT

LENGTH2,782 ft848 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025

255

305

341

431

406

173

326

428

374

347

283

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

IRCCircle City (New) AirportUnited States · Warbelow's Air Ventures43 km27 mi FAIFairbanks International AirportUnited States · Warbelow's Air Ventures166 km103 mi

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

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from CEM

Passenger1

4WWarbelow's Air Ventures2

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from CEM. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers283 (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,509of 3,974 · #934 North America · #688 US Longest runway2,782 ft848 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=18,084of 29,858 · #7,701 North America · #6,531 US Elevation937 ft286 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#18,795of 43,403 · #8,505 North America · #6,864 US AgeOpened 19472026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,942of 15,079 · =1,856 North America · =1,803 US Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =2,583 North America · =2,326 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