IRC

Circle City (New) Airport

ICAO PACR65.8277°N 144.0762°W613 ft / 187 mSmall airport
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Circle City (New) Airport (IATA: IRC, ICAO: PACR) is a small airport in Circle, Alaska, United States. It opened in Feb 1988. It has one runway, 2,979 ft (908 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 429 passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1988–1988
FEB 1988
OpenedCircle City (New) Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
15/33 · LIT
LENGTH2,979 ft908 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
533
563
605
754
695
310
442
635
686
523
429
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers429 (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,448of 3,974 · #910 North America · #665 USLongest runway2,979 ft908 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=16,576of 29,823 · =7,130 North America · =6,037 USElevation613 ft187 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#25,087of 43,341 · #12,084 North America · #10,064 USAgeOpened 19882026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=9,362of 15,079 · =7,167 North America · =7,056 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