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Port Graham Airport is a small, state-owned public-use airfield serving the Alutiiq village of Port Graham on the southern Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It offers a single short runway used chiefly by air-taxi operators for scheduled passenger, mail and freight flights into this remote coastal community, giving simulator pilots a taste of genuine Alaska bush flying.
Port Graham Airport is a modest, state-owned public-use aerodrome built to serve the small Alutiiq village of Port Graham on the southern Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It handles a mix of scheduled air-taxi traffic, mail and freight, and occasional medevac flights, making it a good example of the short, unpaved village strips that characterise rural Alaskan aviation and offer an engaging challenge for simulator pilots.
The airfield sits at Port Graham, a village in the Kenai Peninsula Borough on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula, in a stretch of coastline dotted with small, isolated communities. The neighbouring village of Nanwalek (English Bay) lies close by and is served by its own small airstrip. There is no indication of any control tower or surrounding controlled airspace associated with the field, consistent with its status as an unattended rural airstrip.
Port Graham has a single physical runway, 12/30, with a hard surface measuring 2,366 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach aid associated with the field.
No communications frequencies are published for Port Graham Airport, and there is no air traffic control service. Pilots should expect the field to be unattended and rely on standard self-announce and see-and-avoid procedures typical of remote Alaskan airstrips.
Port Graham Airport is owned and maintained by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. It has been included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, categorised as commercial service - non-primary, reflecting annual passenger boardings in the 2,500 to 10,000 range; in calendar year 2008 the airport recorded 2,916 enplanements, a 1.3 percent decrease from the 2,953 enplanements recorded in 2007. The Alaska DOT&PF has identified safety deficiencies at the existing airport, noting that its short runway length restricts the range of aircraft that can safely use it and that its proximity to residential areas limits further development. This has led to planning for a new, shared airport to serve both Port Graham and the neighbouring village of Nanwalek, to be linked by a new access road across the mountainous terrain that currently separates the two communities.
The airport covers an area of about 31 acres. For the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2005, it recorded 950 aircraft operations, an average of 79 per month, of which 79 percent were air taxi flights and 21 percent general aviation, underlining its role as a lifeline link for the community rather than a hub for private flying. Longer term, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is pursuing a relocation project that would replace the existing airport with a new facility shared with Nanwalek, intended to better accommodate passenger, mail, freight and medevac needs.