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PAAN ·

Gold King Creek Airport

64.19900°N

-147.92799°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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)

48m ago

Temp

55°F

Wind

4 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAEI 271455Z VRB04KT 10SM FEW009 BKN035 OVC070 13/11 A2972 RMK AO2A SLP067 T01300111 55002 $

Runways

1 installed

2,558 FT MAX

09/27

2,558 ft × 17

GRVL-F○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

52% of ops

11 land · 7 TO

48% of ops

10 land · 1 TO

Runway 27 carries 52% of operations (11 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

27 11 landings

UA 0%

09 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 27 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 11 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

1.0

flights/day · 29 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 12am · 1am

Day vs night

31%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1am–9pm local, averaging 1.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (1.0 vs 1.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

7 · 25%

4 · 14%

2 · 7%

Activity is led by (25% of 28 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

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