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White Mountain Airport

ICAO PAWM64.6892°N 163.4130°W267 ft / 82 mSmall airport
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Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region · Public domain · Commons

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
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers7K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,809of 3,974 · #706 North America · #505 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 USElevation267 ft82 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#32,113of 43,341 · #14,755 North America · #12,431 USAgeOpened 19512026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,751of 15,079 · =2,596 North America · =2,536 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