📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 111.8%

DEP / DAY

▲ 170.6%

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 2,450 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 7 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)

1h ago

Temp

62°F

Wind

4 kts

240°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAWS 282156Z AUTO 24004KT 10SM FEW031 SCT040 BKN047 17/10 A2982 RMK AO2 SLP068 T01670100 $

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

54% of ops

140 land · 176 TO

46% of ops

121 land · 76 TO

Runway 25 carries 54% of operations (140 landings, 176 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

25 140 landings

UA 11%

07 121 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 25 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 140 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

9.8

flights/day · 293 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 11pm · 7pm

Day vs night

30%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–7pm local, averaging 9.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (14.0 vs 8.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 278 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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