Kobuk Airport

ICAO PAOB66.9123°N 156.8970°W142 ft / 43 mSmall airport

Kobuk Airport (IATA: OBU, ICAO: PAOB) is a small airport in Kobuk, Alaska, United States. It opened in Jun 1963. It has one runway, 4,020 ft (1,225 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 6 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1963–1963

JUN 1963

OpenedKobuk Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

09/27106° / 286° · LIT

LENGTH4,020 ft1,225 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025

1516171819202122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

SHGShungnak AirportUnited States · Bering Air12 km7.5 mi ABLAmbler AirportUnited States · Bering Air47 km29 mi OTZRalph Wien Memorial AirportUnited States · Bering Air249 km155 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from OBU. From the Wikipedia article “Kobuk Airport” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from OBU

Passenger1

8EBering Air3

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers6K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,886of 3,974 · #744 North America · #536 US Longest runway4,020 ft1,225 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,476of 29,858 · =3,697 North America · =3,084 US Elevation142 ft43 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,542of 43,403 · =16,147 North America · =13,553 US AgeOpened 19632026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,069of 15,079 · =3,512 North America · =3,434 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