Niklason Lake Estates Airport satellite view

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3AK2 ·

Niklason Lake Estates Airport

61.62750°N

-149.28700°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 16.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 9.1%

Niklason Lake Estates Airport (3AK2) is a small general aviation airport located in Palmer, AK, 35 mi north east of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 700 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From PAAQ, 7 mi away (3AK2 does not publish METAR)

16m ago

Temp

45°F

Wind

3 kts

120°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAAQ 271653Z 12003KT 10SM CLR 07/06 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP192 T00720056 $

Runways

1 installed

700 FT MAX

06/24

700 ft × 50

GRVL-F○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

59% of ops

85 land · 25 TO

41% of ops

60 land · 194 TO

Runway 06 carries 59% of operations (85 landings, 25 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 41%.

Approach quality

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

06 85 landings

UA 34%

24 60 landings

UA 13%

Approaches to 06 show a 34% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 85 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

10.6

flights/day · 319 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 9pm · 8pm

Day vs night

31%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 10.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (12.9 vs 10.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (14% of 296 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Elevation:: 410 ft
Mag var:: 24° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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