📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 2.9%

DEP / DAY

▲ 13.0%

Big Lake Airport (PAGQ/BGQ) is a small general aviation airport located in Big Lake, AK, 22 mi north of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 2,450 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

2,450 FT MAX

07/25

2,450 ft × 70

GRAVEL-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

50% of ops

266 land · 146 TO

50% of ops

266 land · 378 TO

Runway 07 carries 50% of operations (266 landings, 146 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 50%.

Approach quality

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

07 266 landings

UA 32%

25 266 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 07 show a 32% unstable-approach rate (84 UA events from 266 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

13.3

flights/day · 399 total

Busy hour (local)

11pm

also 12am · 10pm

Day vs night

27%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 10pm–11pm local, averaging 13.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (15.0 vs 13.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 372 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	118.600	—
CLASS C	118.600	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Mag var:: 15° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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