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PAAN ·

Gold King Creek Airport

64.19900°N

-147.92799°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 300.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 53.8%

Gold King Creek Airport (PAAN) is a small general aviation airport located in Fairbanks, AK, 216 mi north of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 2,558 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From PAEI, 41 mi away (PAAN does not publish METAR)

19m ago

Temp

48°F

Wind

3 kts

330°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAEI 032255Z 33003KT 10SM -DZ OVC055 09/04 A3003 RMK AO2A SLP177 P0000 T00910035 $

Runways

1 installed

2,558 FT MAX

09/27

2,558 ft × 17

GRVL-F○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

67% of ops

14 land · 4 TO

33% of ops

7 land · 2 TO

Runway 27 carries 67% of operations (14 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

27 14 landings

UA 0%

09 7 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 27 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 14 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

2.3

flights/day · 69 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 2am · 11pm

Day vs night

14%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–11pm local, averaging 2.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.8× weekday (3.5 vs 2.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 69 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Elevation:: 1,720 ft
Mag var:: 25° E

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