WBQ

Beaver Airport

ICAO PAWB66.3622°N 147.4070°W365 ft / 111 mSmall airport
On the map

Beaver Airport (IATA: WBQ, ICAO: PAWB) is a small airport in Beaver, Alaska, United States. It opened in Nov 1949. It has one runway, 3,934 ft (1,199 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 2 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1949–1949
NOV 1949
OpenedBeaver Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23073° / 253° · LIT
LENGTH3,934 ft1,199 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
50 km100 km150 km25 mi50 mi75 mi100 miFAI · Fairbanks International Airport · 107 mi / 173 kmFAIWBQ

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WBQ. From the Wikipedia article “Beaver Airport” (revision of 14 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,175of 3,974 · #847 North America · #613 USLongest runway3,934 ft1,199 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=10,826of 29,823 · =4,229 North America · #3,525 USElevation365 ft111 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=29,763of 43,341 · =13,931 North America · =11,720 USAgeOpened 19492026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,461of 15,079 · =2,337 North America · =2,277 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