YAKPAYA

Yakutat Airport

Yakutat, United States · North America

North America America/Anchorage

2direct destinations

1airlines

2runways

2,357 mLongest runway

31Aircraft documented

1940opened

Yakutat Airport (IATA: YAK, ICAO: PAYA, FAA LID: YAK) is a state-owned public-use airport located 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Yakutat, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska which has no road access to the outside world. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,028 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 12,158 enplanements in 2009, and 10,035 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a primary commercial service (nonhub) airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year) based on 10,100 enplanements in CY 2012.

Location

59.509°N, 139.660°O · 10 m s. n. m. (33 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States

CityYakutat

IATA codeYAK

ICAO codePAYA

Coordinates59.509°N, 139.660°O

Elevation10 m s. n. m. (33 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Anchorage

Runways2

Longest runway2,357 m

OperatorDepartamento de Transportación y Servicios Públicos de Alaska

Opened1940

Direct destinations2

Runways · 2

11/29

Length2,357 m7,733 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

02/20

Length1,974 m6,476 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceConcrete

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

Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication

Approach

119.000ARTCC

Common traffic (CTAF)

123.600

Automated weather

135.750ASOS

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: 31 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.

31Aircraft documented

14,293Movements recorded

2006–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Boeing 73729

Airlines with documented aircraft

Alaska Airlines 31

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 · 1

Other airlines with direct routes

Alaska Airlines

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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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Yakutat Airport (YAK). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YAK

MLA

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Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_yak,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Yakutat Airport (YAK)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-16},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YAK},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YAK}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-19},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}

Wikipedia

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