ELI

Elim Airport

ICAO PFEL64.6147°N 162.2720°W162 ft / 49 mSmall airport
On the map
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Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region · Public domain · Commons

Elim Airport (IATA: ELI, ICAO: PFEL) is a small airport in Elim, Alaska, United States. It opened in Oct 1952. It has one runway, 3,401 ft (1,037 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1952–1952
OCT 1952
OpenedElim Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19029° / 209° · LIT · SLOPE 1.1%
LENGTH3,401 ft1,037 mWIDTH60 ft18 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 ELI. From the Wikipedia article “Elim Airport” (revision of 16 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#2,783of 3,974 · #696 North America · #496 USLongest runway3,401 ft1,037 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=13,096of 29,823 · =5,323 North America · =4,452 USElevation162 ft49 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,923of 43,341 · =15,919 North America · =13,371 USAgeOpened 19522026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,844of 15,079 · =2,673 North America · =2,612 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