📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 125.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 193.8%

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)

51m ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

3 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAWS 290356Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM SCT049 BKN070 16/11 A2982 RMK AO2 SLP069 T01610106 $

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

53% of ops

193 land · 238 TO

47% of ops

171 land · 111 TO

Runway 25 carries 53% of operations (193 landings, 238 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

25 193 landings

UA 12%

07 171 landings

UA 23%

Approaches to 25 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (24 UA events from 193 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

10.2

flights/day · 307 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 7pm · 11pm

Day vs night

30%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–11pm local, averaging 10.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (14.8 vs 9.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 289 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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