Wales Airport

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

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

2015–2025

1516171819202122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

KTSBrevig Mission AirportUnited States · Ryan Air Services82 km51 mi SHHShishmaref AirportUnited States · Bering Air, Ryan Air Services115 km71 mi OMENome AirportUnited States · Bering Air175 km109 mi

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.

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from WAA

Passenger2

8EBering Air2 RYARyan Air Services2

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers2K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,111of 3,974 · #828 North America · #601 US Longest runway3,990 ft1,216 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=10,004of 29,858 · =4,167 North America · #3,497 US Elevation26 ft8 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,786of 43,403 · =18,428 North America · =15,115 US AgeOpened 19542026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,023of 15,079 · =2,782 North America · =2,717 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