📍 Big Lake⬆ 158 ft1 runways

PAGQ · BGQ

Big Lake Airport

61.53610°N

-149.81400°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 26.7%

DEP / DAY

▲ 21.9%

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 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From PABV, 13 mi away (PAGQ does not publish METAR)

20m ago

Temp

54°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PABV 302056Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 12/05 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP120 T01220050 58016 $

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

55% of ops

132 land · 79 TO

45% of ops

107 land · 146 TO

Runway 07 carries 55% of operations (132 landings, 79 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

07 132 landings

UA 22%

25 107 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 07 show a 22% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 132 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

10.4

flights/day · 311 total

Busy hour (local)

11pm

also 1am · 6pm

Day vs night

28%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–11pm local, averaging 10.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.9× weekday (16.4 vs 8.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (15% of 287 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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