United States · elevation 33 ft AMSL
· 59.5087, -139.6604
Yakutat Airport is an airport with the ICAO code PAYA and the IATA code YAK. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Yakutat. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the PA prefix, which marks airports in United States. The four-letter code PAYA is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code YAK is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 59°30'31"N, 139°39'38"W, at an elevation of 33 ft (10 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Yakutat.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | 20° | 1,974 m (6,475 ft) | 46 m (150 ft) | asphalt |
| 20 | 200° | |||
| 11 | 110° | 2,357 m (7,732 ft) | 46 m (150 ft) | asphalt |
| 29 | 290° |
The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.
Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Yakutat Airport has 2 runways: 02/20 - 1,974 m long (6,475 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface; 11/29 - 2,357 m long (7,732 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 11/29, at 2,357 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 02/20 on 20° and 200° magnetic, 11/29 on 110° and 290° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.
For the 02/20 axis, wind from the east (around 110°) or from the west (around 290°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 20° or 200° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
Weather reports for Yakutat Airport are published under the ICAO code PAYA. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.
The decoder breaks the PAYA report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.
Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for PAYA, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Yakutat zone is GMT-09:00 in winter and GMT-08:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Yakataga Airport (PACY, 171 km), Haines Junction Airport (CYHT, 184 km), Burwash Airport (Burwash Landing) (CYDB, 210 km). When no report is available for PAYA, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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