📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 48.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 40.0%

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 2,435 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 5 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

2,435 FT MAX

07/25

2,435 ft × 70

GRAVEL-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

52% of ops

101 land · 67 TO

48% of ops

94 land · 103 TO

Runway 07 carries 52% of operations (101 landings, 67 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

07 101 landings

UA 14%

25 94 landings

UA 9%

Approaches to 07 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (14 UA events from 101 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

7.6

flights/day · 229 total

Busy hour (local)

11pm

also 12am · 10pm

Day vs night

24%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 10pm–11pm local, averaging 7.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.8× weekday (11.6 vs 6.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 223 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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