KVL

Kivalina Airport

ICAO PAVL67.7346°N 164.5599°W18 ft / 6 mSmall airport
On the map
Kivalina Alaska aerial view
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographer not specified or unknown · Public domain · Commons

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
Most destinationsRyan Air Services 1Bering Air 1

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.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers8K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,774of 3,974 · #694 North America · #493 USLongest runway3,000 ft914 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=15,835of 29,823 · =6,442 North America · =5,446 USElevation18 ft6 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,531of 43,341 · =18,747 North America · =15,338 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 CNTR119.200
ASOSASOS135.800
CTAFCTAF/UNICOM122.800
FSSKOTZEBUE RDO122.550