Koyukuk Airport

ICAO PFKU64.8761°N 157.7270°W149 ft / 45 mSmall airport

Koyukuk Airport (IATA: KYU, ICAO: PFKU) is a small airport in Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It opened in Nov 1949. It has one runway, 4,000 ft (1,219 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 3 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1949–1949

NOV 1949

OpenedKoyukuk Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25079° / 259° · LIT

LENGTH4,000 ft1,219 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025

1516171819202122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

NULNulato AirportUnited States · Wright Air Service23 km14 mi GALEdward G. Pitka Sr AirportUnited States · Wright Air Service41 km25 mi FAIFairbanks International AirportUnited States · Wright Air Service466 km290 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KYU. From the Wikipedia article “Koyukuk Airport” (revision of 25 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers3K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,059of 3,974 · #816 North America · #590 US Longest runway4,000 ft1,219 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,642of 29,823 · =3,827 North America · =3,209 US Elevation149 ft45 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,309of 43,341 · =16,071 North America · =13,495 US AgeOpened 19492026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,461of 15,079 · =2,337 North America · =2,277 US Runways11 · 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