NUI

Nuiqsut Airport

ICAO PAQT70.2100°N 151.0060°W45 ft / 14 mMedium airport
On the map

Nuiqsut Airport (IATA: NUI, ICAO: PAQT) is a medium airport in Nuiqsut, Alaska, United States. It opened in Jun 1977. It has one runway, 4,589 ft (1,399 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 7 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1977–1977
JUN 1977
OpenedNuiqsut Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23070° / 250° · LIT
LENGTH4,589 ft1,399 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers7K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,805of 3,974 · #704 North America · #503 USLongest runway4,589 ft1,399 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,972of 29,823 · #2,978 North America · #2,454 USElevation45 ft14 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,509of 43,341 · =17,899 North America · =14,771 USAgeOpened 19772026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,549of 15,079 · =5,578 North America · =5,482 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

Radio frequencies

4 channels
A/DANCHORAGE CNTR119.400
ASOSASOS122.500
CTAFCTAF122.800
FSSDEADHORSE RDO122.500