Kivalina Airport

ICAO PAVL67.7346°N 164.5599°W18 ft / 6 mSmall airport

Kivalina Airport (IATA: KVL, ICAO: PAVL) is a small airport in Kivalina, Alaska, United States. It has one runway, 3,000 ft (914 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30137° / 317° · LIT

LENGTH3,000 ft914 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025

12K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

WTKNoatak AirportUnited States · Ryan Air Services70 km43 mi OTZRalph Wien Memorial AirportUnited States · Bering Air126 km78 mi

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

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from KVL

Passenger2

8EBering Air1 RYARyan Air Services1

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers8K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,774of 3,974 · #694 North America · #493 US Longest runway3,000 ft914 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=15,843of 29,858 · =6,443 North America · =5,447 US Elevation18 ft6 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,591of 43,403 · =18,756 North America · =15,346 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

Radio frequencies

4 channels

A/DANCHORAGE CNTR119.200

ASOSASOS135.800

CTAFCTAF/UNICOM122.800

FSSKOTZEBUE RDO122.550