OTZPAOT

Ralph Wien Memorial Airport

Kotzebue, United States · North America

North America America/Anchorage

14direct destinations

3airlines

2runways

1,920 mLongest runway

23Aircraft documented

Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (IATA: OTZ, ICAO: PAOT, FAA LID: OTZ) is a state-owned public-use airport located on the south side of Kotzebue, a city on the Baldwin Peninsula in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Location

66.885°N, 162.599°O · 4 m s. n. m. (14 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States

CityKotzebue

IATA codeOTZ

ICAO codePAOT

Coordinates66.885°N, 162.599°O

Elevation4 m s. n. m. (14 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Anchorage

Runways2

Longest runway1,920 m

OperatorDepartamento de Transportación y Servicios Públicos de Alaska

Direct destinations14

Runways · 2

09/27

Length1,920 m6,299 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

17/35

Length1,158 m3,799 ft

Width27 m89 ft

SurfaceGravel

Lighted✓

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

Radio frequencies · 4 Official publication

Approach

119.200ARTCC

Common traffic (CTAF)

123.600

UNICOM

122.800

Automated weather

135.450ASOS

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

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: 23 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.

23Aircraft documented

18,704Movements recorded

2006–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Boeing 73720

Airlines with documented aircraft

Alaska Airlines 23

Busiest routes from here

OMENome2,705 flights ANCAnchorage437 flights

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 · 3

Airlines using it as a main base (hub)

Bering Air

Other airlines with direct routes

Alaska Airlines Ryan Air Services

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). Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (OTZ). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ

MLA

“Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (OTZ).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (OTZ).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (OTZ). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_otz,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (OTZ)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-16},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

{{cite web |url=https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OTZ |title=Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (OTZ) |website=Vuelopedia |publisher=Fundación Poderia |date=2026-10-16 |access-date=2026-10-17 |language=en}}