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📍 Nikolai⬆ 441 ft1 runways

PAFS · NIB

Nikolai Airport

63.01860°N

-154.35800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Nikolai Airport (PAFS/NIB) is a small general aviation airport located in Nikolai, AK, 191 mi north west of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 4,003 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From PATL, 52 mi away (PAFS does not publish METAR)

1h ago

Temp

52°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PATL 271255Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT070 BKN130 11/08 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP105 T01090079;

Runways

1 installed

4,003 FT MAX

04/22

4,003 ft × 75

GRVL-G○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

93% of ops

38 land · 4 TO

7% of ops

3 land · 11 TO

Runway 04 carries 93% of operations (38 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 7%.

Approach quality

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

04 38 landings

UA 8%

22 3 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 04 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 38 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

0.9

flights/day · 28 total

Busy hour (local)

3am

also 12am · 7pm

Day vs night

25%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3am–7pm local, averaging 0.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.2× weekday (0.2 vs 1.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (54% of 28 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
AWOS	118.325	—
MC GRATH	128.100	—
OTHER	128.100	—
MC GRATH	353.800	—
OTHER	353.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Mag var:: 14° E

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