Port Heiden Airport
Port Heiden Airport
Port Heiden Airport (IATA: PTH, ICAO: PAPH, FAA LID: PTH) is a state-owned public airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) northeast of the central business district of Port Heiden, in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The scheduled airline services to King Salmon Airport are provided by Peninsula Airways (PenAir). As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 919 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 964 enplanements in 2009, and 1,037 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).
Location
56.958°N, 158.630°O · 29 m s. n. m. (95 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
Originally opened as Fort Morrow Army Airfield, the facility was closed after World War II and returned to its civilian status. Beginning in 1958, the airport was used to support Port Heiden Air Force Station—a Cold War United States Air Force Distant Early Warning Line radar station. The station was operated by Detachment 5, 714th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron based at Cold Bay Air Force Station, near Cold Bay. The radar station was inactivated in September 1969, ending the military use of the airport.
The Air Force remediated the radar site around year 2000, removing all abandoned military structures and returning the site to its natural condition.
Airlines operating here · 1
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). Port Heiden Airport (PTH). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PTH
MLA
“Port Heiden Airport (PTH).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PTH. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Port Heiden Airport (PTH).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PTH.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Port Heiden Airport (PTH). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PTH (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Port Heiden Airport (PTH)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PTH},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PTH}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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