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Wainwright Airport

ICAO PAWI70.6380°N 159.9950°W45 ft / 14 mMedium airport
On the map
AWI-Aerial Map
Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region · Public domain · Commons

Wainwright Airport (IATA: AIN, ICAO: PAWI) is a medium airport in Wainwright, Alaska, United States. It has one runway, 4,494 ft (1,370 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
06/24067° / 247° · LIT
LENGTH4,494 ft1,370 mWIDTH110 ft34 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
10K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers9K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,741of 3,974 · #674 North America · #476 USLongest runway4,494 ft1,370 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=8,231of 29,823 · =3,142 North America · =2,586 USElevation45 ft14 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,511of 43,341 · =17,901 North America · =14,773 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
ASOSASOS132.250
CNTRANCHORAGE CNTR135.300
CTAFCTAF122.800
FSSFAIRBANKS RDO122.500