Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport
Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport
Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, (IATA: BRW, ICAO: PABR, FAA LID: BRW) often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial, is a public airport located in Utqia?vik (formerly Barrow), the largest city and borough seat of the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. Situated on the Chukchi Sea at a latitude of 71.29°N, it is the northernmost airport in United States territory. The airport is named after American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post, both of whom died about 9 mi (14 km) away at Point Barrow in a 1935 airplane crash.
Location
71.285°N, 156.766°O · 13 m s. n. m. (44 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication
Approach
Common traffic (CTAF)
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 21 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region · Public domain · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport (BRW). Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BRW
MLA
“Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport (BRW).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BRW. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport (BRW).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BRW.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport (BRW). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BRW (Accessed: 20 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport (BRW)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
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howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BRW}},
urldate = {2026-10-20},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-20}
}Wikipedia
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