Deering Airport

Airport

DRG

Location of airport in Alaska

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d FAA Airport Form 5010 for DEE PDF, effective April 27, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "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.
^ Great Circle Mapper: DRG / PADE - Deering, Alaska
^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original on 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
^ "Bering Air Schedule" (PDF). Bering Air. Retrieved January 15, 2017.

External links

FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
FAA Terminal Procedures for DEE, effective June 13, 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