Nome Airport
Nome Airport
Nome Airport (IATA: OME, ICAO: PAOM, FAA LID: OME) is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of Nome, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 69,593 passenger boardings (enplanements) in 2022. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). The state of Alaska also operates Nome City Field (FAA LID: 94Z), a public general aviation airfield located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the city.
Location
64.512°N, 165.445°O · 11 m s. n. m. (37 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
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.
History
In World War II, the civilian Nome Airport shared use of the runway with Marks Army Airfield for transfer of Lend-Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union and in 1942, for air defense of the western coast of Alaska. Renamed Marks Air Force Base in 1948, the military installation was used as a fighter-interceptor forward base until they were pulled back to Galena Air Force Station. Marks AFB closed in 1950 and an air base squadron was at Nome Airport until December 1956.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 24 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
Airlines using it as a main base (hub)
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: Wikimedia Commons · 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). Nome Airport (OME). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OME
MLA
“Nome Airport (OME).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OME. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Nome Airport (OME).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OME.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Nome Airport (OME). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OME (Accessed: 16 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Nome Airport (OME)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OME},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OME}},
urldate = {2026-10-16},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}Wikipedia
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