Arctic Village Airport

{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Arctic Village Airport

| image = Reception party for returning villagers at Arctic Village.jpg

| caption = A party of residents meet an arriving airplane at Arctic Village.

| IATA = ARC

| ICAO = PARC

| FAA = ARC

| type = Public

| owner = Venetie Tribal Government

| operator =

| city-served = Arctic Village, Alaska

| location =

| elevation-f = 2,092

| elevation-m = 638

| coordinates = {{coord|68|06|53|N|145|34|46|W|region:US_type:airport}}

| website =

| pushpin_map = USA Alaska

| pushpin_relief =

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Alaska

| pushpin_label = ARC

| r1-number = 2/20

| r1-length-f = 4,500

| r1-length-m = 1,372

| r1-surface = Gravel

| stat-year = 2015

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations

| stat1-data = 1,627

| stat2-header = Based aircraft

| stat2-data = 0

| stat3-header = Passengers

| stat3-data = 3,216

| stat4-header = Freight

| stat4-data = 357,000 lbs

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=ARC|use=PU|own=PU|site=50039.8*A}}, effective January 5, 2017.

}}

Arctic Village Airport {{airport codes|ARC|PARC|ARC}} is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.8 km) southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village, a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by the Venetie Tribal Government.

Facilities and aircraft

Arctic Village Airport has one runway designated 2/20 with a gravel surface measuring 4,500 by 75 feet (1,372 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,627 aircraft operations, an average of 135 per month: 89% air taxi and 11% general aviation.

Airlines and destinations

{{Update section|date=January 2022}}

The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service at this airport:

{{Airport destination list

| Everts Air | Fairbanks{{cite web |title=Passenger Schedules |url=https://evertsair.com/passenger/schedules |access-date=20 December 2020}}

| Wright Air Service | Fairbanks, Fort Yukon, Venetie{{cite web | url = https://wrightairservice.tflite.com/TakeFlitePublicwas/Pgschedule.aspx?detailed=y&group=y&showpilot=y&showgate=n | title = Schedule | publisher = Wright Air Service | access-date = January 11, 2017}}

}}As of 2019, Wright Air Service is flying only to Venetie (VEE) during the whole week except on Sunday.{{Cite web |title=2019 Timetable |url=https://www.wrightairservice.com/uploads/web-pdf/TIMETABLE_2019.pdf |website=Wright Air Service}}

=Statistics=

{{Bar graph

| title = Carrier shares: January – December 2015

| bar_width = 28

| width_units = em

| label_type = Carrier  

| data_type = Passengers (arriving and departing)

| data_max = 3,300

| label1 = Wright Air

| data1 = 3,210

| comment1 = 99.69%

| label2 = Everts Air

| data2 = 10

| comment2 = 0.31%

}}

class="wikitable"

|+ Top domestic destinations: January – December 2015

{{cite web

| url = http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp?pn=1&Airport=ARC&Airport_Name=Arctic%20Village,%20AK:%20Arctic%20Village%20Airport&carrier=FACTS

| title = Arctic Village, AK: Arctic Village (ARC)

| publisher = Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation

| date = December 2015 | access-date = January 11, 2017

}}

! Rank

! City

! Airport

! Passengers

1

| Fairbanks, AK

| Fairbanks International Airport (FAI)

| align="right" | 1,300

2

| Fort Yukon, AK

| Fort Yukon Airport (FYU)

| align="right" | 130

3

| Venetie, AK

| Venetie Airport (VEE)

| align="right" | 120

See also

References