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📍 Nikolai⬆ 441 ft1 runways

PAFS · NIB

Nikolai Airport

63.01860°N

-154.35800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 33.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 33.3%

Nikolai Airport (PAFS/NIB) is a small general aviation airport located in Nikolai, AK, 191 mi north west of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 4,003 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 0 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1h ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

3 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR PAFS 160001Z AUTO 27003KT 10SM FEW026 SCT032 BKN110 22/17 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP137 T02170167 10217 20178 56009 $

Runways

1 installed

4,003 FT MAX

04/22

4,003 ft × 75

GRVL-G○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

100% of ops

20 land · 0 TO

0% of ops

0 land · 6 TO

Runway 04 carries 100% of operations (20 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 0%.

Approach quality

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

04 20 landings

UA 5%

22 0 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 04 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 20 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

0.7

flights/day · 22 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 11pm · 1am

Day vs night

32%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1am–7pm local, averaging 0.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (0.8 vs 0.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 22 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
AWOS	118.325	—
MC GRATH	128.100	—
OTHER	128.100	—
MC GRATH	353.800	—
OTHER	353.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Mag var:: 14° E

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