ORTPAOR

Northway Airport

Northway, United States · North America

North America America/Anchorage

1runway

1,554 mLongest runway

Northway Airport (IATA: ORT, ICAO: PAOR, FAA LID: ORT) is a state-owned public-use airport serving Northway, a community located in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. During World War II for northbound Lend-Lease aircraft on the Northwest Staging Route, the flight strip at Northway Army Airfield was the first stop in the Territory of Alaska.

Location

62.961°N, 141.929°O · 523 m s. n. m. (1.715 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States

CityNorthway

IATA codeORT

ICAO codePAOR

Coordinates62.961°N, 141.929°O

Elevation523 m s. n. m. (1.715 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Anchorage

Runways1

Longest runway1,554 m

OperatorDepartamento de Transportación y Servicios Públicos de Alaska

Runways · 1

05/23

Length1,554 m5,098 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceGRVL-DIRT-G

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication

Approach

126.550ARTCC

Common traffic (CTAF)

123.600

Automated weather

135.400ASOS

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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.

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Northway Airport (ORT). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ORT

MLA

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Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_ort,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Northway Airport (ORT)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-16},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ORT},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ORT}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-23},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}

Wikipedia

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