📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 15.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 13.6%

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

From PAWS, 9 mi away (PAGQ does not publish METAR)

42m ago

Temp

57°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAWS 122156Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC014 14/12 A3032 RMK AO2 SLP237 T01390117 $

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

54% of ops

232 land · 309 TO

46% of ops

201 land · 108 TO

Runway 25 carries 54% of operations (232 landings, 309 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 46%.

Approach quality

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

25 232 landings

UA 10%

07 201 landings

UA 20%

Approaches to 25 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (24 UA events from 232 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

9.3

flights/day · 278 total

Busy hour (local)

11pm

also 10pm · 12am

Day vs night

28%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–11pm local, averaging 9.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.7× weekday (13.8 vs 8.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (17% of 254 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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