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Niklason Lake Estates Airport

61.62750°N
-149.28700°W
ARR / DAY
3
28.6%
DEP / DAY
4
23.1%

Niklason Lake Estates Airport (3AK2) is a small general aviation airport located in Palmer, AK, 35 mi north east of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 700 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From PAAQ, 7 mi away (3AK2 does not publish METAR)

53m ago
Temp
52°F
Wind
3 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
PAAQ 201353Z AUTO 13003KT 10SM -RA BKN006 OVC095 11/11 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP164 P0001 T01110106 TSNO $

Runways

1 installed

700 FT MAX
06/24
700 ft × 50
GRVL-F○ unlit

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

06
66% of ops
292 land · 168 TO
24
34% of ops
152 land · 475 TO
Runway 06 carries 66% of operations (292 landings, 168 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 34%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

06 292 landings
UA 25%
24 152 landings
UA 15%
Approaches to 06 show a 25% unstable-approach rate (73 UA events from 292 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
9.1
flights/day · 274 total
Busy hour (local)
2am
also 8pm · 9pm
Day vs night
28%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2am–9pm local, averaging 9.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (9.9 vs 9.3 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (21% of 245 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAN
Elevation:
410 ft
Mag var:
24° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 14:46 UTC