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PAAN ·

Gold King Creek Airport

64.19900°N

-147.92799°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 75.0%

Gold King Creek Airport (PAAN) is a small general aviation airport located in Fairbanks, AK, 216 mi north of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 2,558 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From PAEI, 41 mi away (PAAN does not publish METAR)

46m ago

Temp

36°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAEI 120755Z 00000KT 10SM -RA OVC007 02/02 A2955 RMK AO2A CIG 006 RWY14 SLP014 PCPN VRY LGT P0000 T00230016 $

Runways

1 installed

2,558 FT MAX

09/27

2,558 ft × 100

GRVL-F○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

76% of ops

32 land · 5 TO

24% of ops

10 land · 10 TO

Runway 27 carries 76% of operations (32 landings, 5 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

27 32 landings

UA 19%

09 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 27 show a 19% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 32 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

4.4

flights/day · 132 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 12am · 7pm

Day vs night

38%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–7pm local, averaging 4.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (5.6 vs 4.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 132 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Elevation:: 1,720 ft
Mag var:: 25° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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