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False Pass Airport is a small, state-owned public-use airfield serving the remote fishing community of False Pass on the Alaska Peninsula, in the Aleutians East Borough. It offers a single short runway and forms an essential air link for local residents, being served by scheduled flights to Cold Bay and Akutan.
False Pass Airport is a state-owned, public-use aerodrome that serves the small community of False Pass, a city in the Aleutians East Borough of Alaska. It is a modest general aviation field with no based aircraft, but it plays an important role as a scheduled air link for the settlement, with Grant Aviation providing service to Cold Bay Airport and Akutan Airport. For a simulator pilot, it represents a classic remote Alaskan bush strip: a single gravel-region runway, minimal infrastructure and dramatic surrounding terrain typical of the Aleutian chain.
False Pass lies on the Alaska Peninsula within the Aleutians East Borough, in an area with no nearby controlled airspace or major terminal facilities described in the available sources. The airfield sits close to the town it serves, at coordinates 54.8479 N, 163.407 W.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 14/32, measuring 2,193 feet in length with an H surface designation. There is no lighting and no instrument landing system.
No communications frequencies are published for False Pass Airport, and there is no known air traffic control or advisory service associated with the field. Pilots operating here should expect a self-announce, uncontrolled environment typical of remote Alaskan airstrips of this size.
False Pass Airport has long served as the sole air link for the community of False Pass. Federal Aviation Administration records show the airport handled 505 passenger boardings in 2008, 482 in 2009 and 321 in 2010, and it was included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011 to 2015 as a general aviation airport, since it falls below the enplanement threshold required for commercial service classification. Over the years the field has been served by various regional carriers, including PenAir, whose withdrawal from the Alaska Peninsula was noted in local reporting, and more recently by Grant Aviation.
Grant Aviation currently provides scheduled passenger service from False Pass to Cold Bay and to Akutan. The airport has no based aircraft. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has proposed a rehabilitation project for the airport, citing runway surfaces worn to the subbase with ponding and exposed cobble-sized stones, damaged or non-existent signage, and a segmented circle with wind cone equipment that is beyond its useful life or damaged. The project also notes that erosion from nearby Round Top Valley Creek is threatening airport land, the FAA building and the runway safety area, indicating that facilities at the field are basic and subject to ongoing environmental pressures.