📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 9.4%

DEP / DAY

▲ 2.6%

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 6 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)

23m ago

Temp

49°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAWS 191256Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 09/07 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP167 P0001 T00940072 $

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

53% of ops

122 land · 62 TO

47% of ops

109 land · 158 TO

Runway 07 carries 53% of operations (122 landings, 62 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

07 122 landings

UA 18%

25 109 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 07 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (22 UA events from 122 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 · 318 total

Busy hour (local)

11pm

also 10pm · 1am

Day vs night

29%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1am–11pm local, averaging 10.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.8× weekday (16.4 vs 8.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (15% of 292 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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