Nuiqsut Airport

IATA: NUI
ICAO: PAQT
FAA LID: AQT

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

North Slope Borough

Serves

Nuiqsut, Alaska

Elevation AMSL

38 ft / 12 m

Coordinates

70°12′36″N 151°00′20″W / 70.21000°N 151.00556°W

Map

NUI

Location of Nuiqsut Airport

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4/22	4,343	1,324	Gravel

Statistics (2005)

Aircraft operations	1,800

Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Nuiqsut Airport (IATA: NUI, ICAO: PAQT, FAA LID: AQT) is a public use airport located in Nuiqsut,^[1] a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by North Slope Borough.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AQT by the FAA^[1] and NUI by the IATA.^[2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAQT.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft[]

Nuiqsut Airport has one runway designated 4/22 with a gravel surface measuring 4,343 by 90 feet (1,324 x 27 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,800 aircraft operations, an average of 150 per month: 83% air taxi, 11% military and 6% general aviation.^[1]

Airlines and destinations[]

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Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.

Top destinations[]

**Busiest domestic routes out of NUI**
(June 2010 - May 2011) ^[4]
Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
—	Utqiagvik, AK	1,000	Frontier Flying, Hageland
—	Deadhorse, AK	1,000	Frontier Flying, Hageland

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e FAA Airport Form 5010 for AQT PDF, effective 2009-07-02.
^ "NUI / PAQT - Nuiqsut, Alaska". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
^ http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp?pn=1&Airport=NUI&Airport_Name=Nuiqsut,%20AK:%20Nuiqsut%20Airport&carrier=FACTS

External links[]

FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
FAA Terminal Procedures for AQT, effective February 24, 2022
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for AQT
- AirNav airport information for PAQT
- ASN accident history for NUI
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PAQT
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for AQT

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