CEM

Central Airport

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

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.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers283 (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,509of 3,974 · #934 North America · #688 USLongest runway2,782 ft848 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=18,075of 29,823 · #7,700 North America · #6,530 USElevation937 ft286 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#18,776of 43,341 · #8,501 North America · #6,860 USAgeOpened 19472026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,942of 15,079 · =1,856 North America · =1,803 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