PQS

Pilot Station Airport

ICAO PAAC61.9617°N 162.9419°W473 ft / 144 mSmall airport
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Pilot Station Airport (IATA: PQS, ICAO: PAAC) is a small airport in Pilot Station, Alaska, United States. It opened in Dec 1966. It has one runway, 4,000 ft (1,219 m) long, gravel. In 2025 it handled 11 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1966–1966
DEC 1966
OpenedPilot Station Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
04/22057° / 237° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 ft1,219 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2025
13K
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11K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PQS. From the Wikipedia article “Pilot Station Airport” (revision of 17 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from PQS
Passenger1
GVGrant Aviation2

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers11K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,639of 3,974 · #638 North America · #442 USLongest runway4,000 ft1,219 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,646of 29,858 · =3,829 North America · =3,211 USElevation473 ft144 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=27,623of 43,403 · =13,128 North America · =10,989 USAgeOpened 19662026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,606of 15,079 · =3,958 North America · =3,871 USRunways11 · 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