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Wales Airport

ICAO PAIW65.6226°N 168.0950°W26 ft / 8 mSmall airport
On the map

Wales Airport (IATA: WAA, ICAO: PAIW) is a small airport in Wales, Alaska, United States. It opened in Oct 1954. It has one runway, 3,990 ft (1,216 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 2 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1954–1954
OCT 1954
OpenedWales Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
18/36188° / 008° · LIT
LENGTH3,990 ft1,216 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsRyan Air Services 2Bering Air 2

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,111of 3,974 · #828 North America · #601 USLongest runway3,990 ft1,216 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=10,000of 29,823 · =4,165 North America · #3,495 USElevation26 ft8 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,726of 43,341 · =18,419 North America · =15,107 USAgeOpened 19542026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,023of 15,079 · =2,782 North America · =2,717 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