Kwethluk Airport

ICAO PFKW60.7903°N 161.4440°W25 ft / 8 mSmall airport

Kwethluk Airport (IATA: KWT, ICAO: PFKW) is a small airport in Kwethluk, Alaska, United States. It opened in Jul 1966. It has one runway, 3,199 ft (975 m) long, gravel. It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1966–1966

JUL 1966

OpenedKwethluk Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

18/36196° / 016° · LIT

LENGTH3,199 ft975 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025

11K

10K

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Routes

7 destinations · 1 country

Year-round7

KKIAkiachak AirportUnited States · Yute Commuter Service, Primera Air Nordic, Grant Aviation14 km8.7 mi727 pax AKIAkiak AirportUnited States · Yute Commuter Service, Primera Air Nordic17 km11 mi153 pax BETBethel AirportUnited States · 7S, Yute Commuter Service, Primera Air Nordic +121 km13 mi2,836 pax TLTTuluksak AirportUnited States · Yute Commuter Service, Primera Air Nordic43 km27 mi143 pax NUPNunapitchuk AirportUnited States · Primera Air Nordic55 km34 mi62 pax KUKKasigluk AirportUnited States · Primera Air Nordic59 km37 mi120 pax ANIAniak AirportUnited States · 7S135 km84 mi6 pax

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KWT. US DOT BTS T-100, 2025: passengers flown from KWT, all carriers, routes with 12 or more departures.

Airlines

4 airlines · destinations from KWT

Passenger4

6FPrimera Air Nordic6 K2Yute Commuter Service4

—7S2

GVGrant Aviation2

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers8K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,768of 3,974 · #690 North America · #490 US Longest runway3,199 ft975 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=15,017of 29,858 · =6,021 North America · =5,070 US Elevation25 ft8 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,892of 43,403 · =18,465 North America · =15,132 US AgeOpened 19662026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,606of 15,079 · =3,958 North America · =3,871 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