Red Dog Airport

ICAO PADG68.0321°N 162.8990°W969 ft / 295 mSmall airport

Red Dog Airport (IATA: RDB, ICAO: PADG) is a small airport in Red Dog, Alaska, United States. It opened in Jun 1986. It has one runway, 6,312 ft (1,924 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 32 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1986–1986

JUN 1986

OpenedRed Dog Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03/21042° / 222° · LIT

LENGTH6,312 ft1,924 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

22K

23K

26K

31K

18K

24K

27K

30K

31K

32K

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Routes

10 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RDB. US DOT BTS T-100, 2025: passengers flown from RDB, all carriers, routes with 12 or more departures.

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from RDB

Passenger2

8EBering Air9 ASAlaska Airlines1

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers32K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,272of 3,974 · #529 North America · #360 US Longest runway6,312 ft1,924 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#4,231of 29,858 · #1,106 North America · #853 US Elevation969 ft295 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=18,283of 43,403 · =8,199 North America · =6,584 US AgeOpened 19862026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=9,000of 15,079 · =6,833 North America · =6,722 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