Airports / PAGQ / Big Lake AirportIATA BGQGood ground coverage

📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 75.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 64.7%

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 2,450 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 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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Temp

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Wind

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

2,450 FT MAX

07/25

2,450 ft × 70

GRAVEL-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

55% of ops

336 land · 402 TO

45% of ops

276 land · 216 TO

Runway 25 carries 55% of operations (336 landings, 402 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

25 336 landings

UA 15%

07 276 landings

UA 27%

Approaches to 25 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (52 UA events from 336 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

8.2

flights/day · 246 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 11pm · 1am

Day vs night

30%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–1am local, averaging 8.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (9.6 vs 8.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 237 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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