Point Hope Airport

ICAO PAPO68.3488°N 166.7990°W21 ft / 6 mSmall airport

Point Hope Airport (IATA: PHO, ICAO: PAPO) is a small airport in Point Hope, Alaska, United States. It opened in Jul 1958. It has one runway, 4,000 ft (1,219 m) long, asphalt. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1958–1958

JUL 1958

OpenedPoint Hope Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03/21036° / 216° · LIT

LENGTH4,000 ft1,219 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

12K

11K

10K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

LURCape Lisburne LRRS AirportUnited States · Bering Air65 km40 mi KVLKivalina AirportUnited States · Bering Air115 km71 mi OTZRalph Wien Memorial AirportUnited States · Bering Air241 km150 mi

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

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from PHO

Passenger1

8EBering Air3

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers9K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,747of 3,974 · #676 North America · #478 US Longest runway4,000 ft1,219 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,646of 29,858 · =3,829 North America · =3,211 US Elevation21 ft6 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,272of 43,403 · =18,633 North America · =15,267 US AgeOpened 19582026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,324of 15,079 · =2,944 North America · =2,872 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