Deering Airport

Deering Airport
IATA: DRG ICAO: PADE FAA LID: DEE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region
Serves	Deering, Alaska
Elevation AMSL	21 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	66°04′10″N 162°45′59″W
Map
DRG Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 3/21 3,320 1,012 Gravel 12/30 2,660 811 Gravel
Statistics (2016)
Aircraft operations 3,500 (2014) Based aircraft 0 Passengers 2,403 Freight 727,000 lbs
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] Source: Bureau of Transportation[2]

Deering Airport (IATA: DRG, ICAO: PADE, FAA LID: DEE) (Iñupiaq: Ipnatchiam Mirvia) is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Deering,[1] a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DEE by the FAA[1] and DRG by the IATA.[3] The airport's ICAO identifier is PADE.[4]

Facilities

Deering Airport covers an area of 262 acres (106 ha) at an elevation of 21 feet (6 m) above mean sea level. It has two gravel surfaced runways: 2/20 measures 3,300 by 75 feet (1,006 x 23 m) and 11/29 is 2,640 by 75 feet (805 x 23 m).[1]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Bering Air	Buckland, Kotzebue[5]

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

Statistics

Carrier shares: January – December 2016[2]

Carrier	Passengers (arriving and departing)
Bering	1,620(67.25%)
Hageland	790(32.75%)

Top domestic destinations: January – December 2016[2]

Rank	City	Airport	Passengers
1	Kotzebue, AK	Ralph Wien Memorial Airport	1,000
2	Buckland, AK	Buckland Airport	180
3	Nome, AK	Nome Airport	10

See also

• List of airports in Alaska

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for DEE PDF, effective April 27, 2017.
2. "Deering, AK: Deering (DEE)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. December 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
3. Great Circle Mapper: DRG / PADE - Deering, Alaska
4. "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original on 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
5. "Bering Air Schedule" (PDF). Bering Air. Retrieved January 15, 2017.

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
• FAA Terminal Procedures for DEE, effective December 26, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for DEE
  • AirNav airport information for PADE
  • ASN accident history for DRG
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PADE
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for DEE