White Mountain Airport

ICAO PAWM64.6892°N 163.4130°W267 ft / 82 mSmall airport

White Mountain Airport (IATA: WMO, ICAO: PAWM) is a small airport in White Mountain, Alaska, United States. It opened in Jul 1951. 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 7 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1951–1951

JUL 1951

OpenedWhite Mountain Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

15/33164° / 344° · LIT · SLOPE 1.5%

LENGTH3,000 ft914 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025

1516171819202122232425

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

GLVGolovin AirportUnited States · Bering Air25 km16 mi OMENome AirportUnited States · Bering Air99 km62 mi

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

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from WMO

Passenger1

8EBering Air2

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers7K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,809of 3,974 · #706 North America · #505 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 Elevation267 ft82 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#32,162of 43,403 · #14,761 North America · #12,436 US AgeOpened 19512026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,751of 15,079 · =2,596 North America · =2,536 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