FAA Alaskan Region

About FAA Alaska

The Alaskan Region administers the largest single concentration of public-use airports per capita in the country, spanning roughly 200 community airports and seaplane bases that are often the only year-round link to the road network for the villages they serve. The FAA assigns each airport in the United States to one of nine regions; this region handles airport certification, safety inspections, federal-grant coordination, and overall coordination with the air-traffic-control facilities physically inside its territory.

For travelers, the most useful thing to know about a region is which of its airports is the closest large_airport for the trip you are planning, and which secondary or regional airports could spare you a longer drive to the major airport. The featured airports below cover the largest gateways inside the Alaskan Region, and the state list below that gives you a way to drill into every public-use airport the region covers.

States & territories in the Alaska region

Featured airports inside the Alaska region

Region totals