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Niklason Lake Estates Airport satellite view

📍 Palmer⬆ 410 ft1 runways

3AK2 ·

Niklason Lake Estates Airport

61.62750°N

-149.28700°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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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

61% of ops

109 land · 45 TO

39% of ops

69 land · 221 TO

Runway 06 carries 61% of operations (109 landings, 45 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

06 109 landings

UA 30%

24 69 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 06 show a 30% unstable-approach rate (33 UA events from 109 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

9.6

flights/day · 287 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 7pm · 10pm

Day vs night

26%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–10pm local, averaging 9.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (12.2 vs 9.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (15% of 269 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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