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Tin City Long Range Radar Station Airport is a remote gravel airstrip in the far northwest of Alaska, built to serve the Tin City Long Range Radar Station on the Bering Strait coast. It offers a single hard-surfaced runway and sits in one of the most isolated corners of the state, with no published radio frequency for arriving pilots to work with.
Tin City Long Range Radar Station Airport is a small airfield associated with the United States Air Force long-range radar installation at Tin City, on the northwestern tip of the Alaskan mainland overlooking the Bering Strait. For a simulator pilot the appeal lies chiefly in its remoteness and its single hard runway serving an isolated defence-related outpost rather than any civil traffic base.
The airfield lies at Tin City, Alaska, close to the Bering Strait coastline. Nearby settlements include Wales, about six miles away, with Teller roughly fifty miles distant and Nome around a hundred miles to the south. No controlled airspace or air traffic services are noted in connection with the field, consistent with its use as a support strip for the adjacent radar station rather than a public-use aerodrome.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 16/34, of 4,772 feet with a hard surface. There is no ILS available, and no lighting or additional runway pairs are recorded.
No communications frequency is published for Tin City Long Range Radar Station Airport, and no callsign, navaids or instrument approach procedures are recorded for the field.
The airfield sits immediately adjacent to the Tin City settlement itself, with the village of Wales visible some six miles away, offering a useful visual reference for pilots navigating this stretch of the Bering Strait coast.
The airfield continues to serve the Tin City Long Range Radar Station installation. No communications frequency is currently published, and there is no indication of scheduled civil operations or public facilities at the field.