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Nikolai Airport

ICAO PAFS63.0179°N 154.3604°W447 ft / 136 mSmall airport
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Nikolai 21 4-8-2013 (8726587757)
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Nikolai Airport (IATA: NIB, ICAO: PAFS) is a small airport in Nikolai, Alaska, United States. It has one runway, 4,001 ft (1,220 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 3 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N
05/23063° / 243° · LIT
LENGTH4,001 ft1,220 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
699
637
517
426
2K
2K
2K
2K
3K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
25 km50 km10 mi20 mi30 mi40 miMCG · McGrath Airport · 39 mi / 63 kmMCGNIB

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NIB. From the Wikipedia article “Nikolai Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers3K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,091of 3,974 · #823 North America · #596 USLongest runway4,001 ft1,220 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,597of 29,823 · =3,782 North America · =3,165 USElevation447 ft136 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=28,103of 43,341 · =13,338 North America · =11,183 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