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Unalakleet Airport is a state-owned, public-use airfield serving the coastal community of Unalakleet on Alaska's Norton Sound coast, roughly one nautical mile north of the town centre. It offers a long paved instrument runway alongside a shorter crosswind strip, making it a key regional hub for passenger and cargo flights into western Alaska's Nome Census Area.
Unalakleet Airport is a state-owned public-use aerodrome that sits just north of the town of Unalakleet in Alaska's Nome Census Area. It is a significant regional gateway for the surrounding villages of western Alaska, handling both scheduled passenger flights and heavy cargo traffic, and its long, lit instrument runway with an ILS makes it a useful and interesting stop for visiting VFR and IFR pilots alike operating in the bush-flying environment of the Norton Sound coast.
The airfield lies at 63.8885 N, 160.799 W at an elevation of 23 feet, about one nautical mile north of the central business district of Unalakleet, a city in the Nome Census Area of Alaska. Communications in the area are provided by Nome Flight Service Station via a remote communications outlet, and Anchorage Center provides overlying en-route air traffic services; there is no local control tower, consistent with the uncontrolled airspace typical of rural Alaskan airfields.
Unalakleet has two physical runways. The main runway, 15/33, is 5,882 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and served by an ILS on runway 15. The secondary runway, 09/27, is 1,897 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit, providing a crosswind option for smaller aircraft.
An AWOS-3 automated weather observation is available on 132.25 MHz. The common traffic advisory frequency is 123 MHz. Anchorage Center can be reached on 135.7 MHz for en-route services, and Nome Flight Service Station provides communications via a remote radio outlet on 122.3 MHz. Runway 15 is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
Unalakleet Airport has long served as the aviation lifeline for this Norton Sound community, supporting both passenger and freight services to and from surrounding villages. On 2 June 1990, MarkAir Flight 3087, a Boeing 737-2X6X inbound from Anchorage, crashed 7.5 miles short of runway 14, injuring four occupants, one seriously, and destroying the aircraft; there were no fatalities and no passengers aboard at the time. More recently, on 6 February 2025, Bering Air Flight 445, bound for Nome, disappeared over Norton Sound and was later found crashed with all ten occupants killed, a tragedy that drew national attention to the airfield's role in the region's air transport network.
Unalakleet remains an active regional hub for western Alaska. Northern Air Cargo operates Boeing 737 freight services into the field, and Everts Air Cargo also flies cargo to and from Anchorage. Passenger services are provided by Aleutian Airways to Anchorage, and by Bering Air and Ryan Air, both of which connect Unalakleet with the nearby villages of Koyuk, Nome, St. Michael, Shaktoolik and Stebbins.