# Point Lay LRRS Airport (PIZ / PPIZ)

**Point Lay LRRS Airport** (IATA: PIZ, ICAO: PPIZ) is a medium airport in Point Lay, Alaska, United States. It opened in Mar 1960. It has one runway, 4,500 ft (1,372 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 3 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ppiz

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: PIZ / PPIZ
- FAA: PIZ
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Point Lay, Alaska, United States
- Opened: Mar 1960
- Elevation: 29 ft / 9 m
- Coordinates: 69.7329, -163.0050
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 4,500 ft / 1,372 m
- Instrument procedures: 2 approaches
- Passengers: 3,404 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-9/-8 · America/Nome
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Lay_LRRS_Airport (7 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4368995
- Weather station: PPIZ · WMO 70121
- Ident: PPIZ

## Timeline

- Mar 1960: Point Lay LRRS Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06/24 | 4,500 ft / 1,372 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Gravel | 069° / 249° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 4,767 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 5,264 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 4,561 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 4,743 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 4,442 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 2,154 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 2,362 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 2,903 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 3,087 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 3,477 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 3,404 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [BRW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/pabr.md) Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport · United States · 180 mi / 289 km · Wright Air Service

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from PIZ, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 8V [Wright Air Service](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/wright-air-service) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 3K (2025) | #3,026 of 3,974 | #802 in North America | #580 in US |
| Longest runway | 4,500 ft / 1,372 m | =8,114 of 29,858 | =3,043 in North America | =2,509 in US |
| Elevation | 29 ft / 9 m | =40,692 of 43,403 | =18,381 in North America | =15,075 in US |
| Age | Opened 1960 | =4,584 of 15,079 | =3,130 in North America | =3,055 in US |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =2,326 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 135.650 |
| CNTR | ANCHORAGE CNTR | 119.650 |
| CTAF | CTAF | 122.400 |
| FSS | FAIRBANKS RDO | 122.400 |
| MISC | MISC | 122.800 |
| UNIC | UNICOM | 126.200 |

## Nearby airports

- [2AK8](https://dromopedia.com/airports/2ak8.md) Icy Cape Air Force Station Airport · 47 mi / 75 km

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #56

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Point Lay LRRS Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Point_Lay_LRRS_Airport&oldid=1363072044), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ppiz/data