NLG

Nelson Lagoon Airport

ICAO PAOU56.0075°N 161.1600°W14 ft / 4 mSmall airport
On the map

Nelson Lagoon Airport (IATA: NLG, ICAO: PAOU) is a small airport in Nelson Lagoon, Alaska, United States. It opened in Oct 1979. It has one runway, 4,003 ft (1,220 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 112 passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1979–1979
OCT 1979
OpenedNelson Lagoon Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
08/26096° / 276° · LIT
LENGTH4,003 ft1,220 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
948
1K
795
824
790
180
342
226
140
179
112
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers112 (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=3,633of 3,974 · =962 North America · =714 USLongest runway4,003 ft1,220 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,534of 29,823 · =3,743 North America · =3,127 USElevation14 ft4 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,950of 43,341 · =18,925 North America · =15,455 USAgeOpened 19792026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,900of 15,079 · =5,880 North America · =5,780 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