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Naknek Airport is a small, state-owned public-use airfield serving the community of Naknek in Alaska's Bristol Bay Borough, roughly one nautical mile north of the town centre. It is an unattended general aviation field with two gravel-surfaced runways, used predominantly by light single-engine aircraft and local air taxi operators.
Naknek Airport (5NK) is a state-owned, public-use general aviation airfield serving Naknek, Alaska, in the Bristol Bay Borough. It sits within the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems as a general aviation facility and is unattended, making it a straightforward but characterful destination for VFR pilots exploring this remote part of southwest Alaska.
The airport lies about one nautical mile north of the central business district of Naknek, in the Bristol Bay Borough of Alaska. It is a remote, uncontrolled field with no published controlled airspace detail in the available sources; pilots should expect typical uncontrolled Alaskan bush-airfield operations. South Naknek Airport lies a short distance to the south across the Naknek River, and King Salmon Airport is also in the vicinity.
Naknek Airport has two physical runways, both with hard surfaces and lit. Runway 08/26 measures 2,384 feet, and runway 14/32 measures 1,926 feet. Field elevation is 66 feet.
No communications frequencies are recorded for Naknek Airport, and the field is unattended, so pilots should not expect an A/G or ATC service on site. There is no instrument landing system, and no navaids or published instrument approaches are noted in the available sources.
The airport lies just north of the town of Naknek, close to the Naknek River, with South Naknek Airport situated a short distance away on the opposite side of the river, useful as a nearby reference point when navigating in the area.
Naknek Airport is a state-owned facility that has long served the community of Naknek. In the twelve months to 31 December 2005 it recorded 7,700 aircraft operations, an average of 21 per day, of which 92 percent were general aviation and 8 percent air taxi. At that time 24 aircraft were based there, 96 percent single-engine and 4 percent helicopters. The airport recorded 161 commercial passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, an increase of 53 percent on the 105 enplanements of 2007.
Naknek Airport remains an unattended general aviation airfield, categorised by the FAA as a general aviation facility within the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. It continues to support predominantly single-engine general aviation traffic alongside some air taxi operations, reflecting its role as a local aviation hub for the Naknek area.
