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Gold King Creek Airport

64.19900°N
-147.92799°W
ARR / DAY
0
100.0%
DEP / DAY
5
44.4%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 0 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

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

55m ago
Temp
48°F
Wind
4 kts
Visib
8047 m
Ceil
PAEI 161055Z VRB04KT 5SM -RA BR SCT015 BKN037 BKN050 OVC060 09/08 A2963 RMK AO2A SLP039 P0004 T00890081 $

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

27
64% of ops
14 land · 6 TO
09
36% of ops
8 land · 7 TO
Runway 27 carries 64% of operations (14 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

27 14 landings
UA 7%
09 8 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 27 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 14 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
3.5
flights/day · 105 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 2am · 6pm
Day vs night
22%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–6pm local, averaging 3.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (3.8 vs 3.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 105 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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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 11:50 UTC