Wales Airport
Wales Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile northwest of the central business district of Wales, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Alaska, United States of America
- Also known as: “PAIW” and “WAA”
- Address: AK
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wales and Tin City.
Wales
Village
Wales is a city of approximately 168 people in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the westernmost city on the North American mainland, although Adak, located on Adak Island, is the westernmost city in Alaska. Wales Airport serves Wales with flights on Bering Air and Ravn Alaska to Nome.
Tin City
Hamlet
Tin City is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally staffed radar station, in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at the mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, 5 miles southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula. Tin City is situated 6 miles southeast of Wales Airport.
Wales Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Nome, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.6226° or 65° 37′ 21″ northLongitude
-168.09496° or 168° 5′ 42″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)IATA airport code
WAAICAO airport code
PAIWUnited Nations Location Code
US WAAOpen location code
92QHJWF4+22OpenStreetMap ID
way 249169550OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
5877564Wikidata ID
Q4479769
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Wales Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wales Airport”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واليس ايرپورت”
- French: “aérodrome de Wales”
- French: “Aérodrome de Wales”
- French: “IWK”
- Indonesian: “PAIW”
- Indonesian: “WAA”
- Persian: “فرودگاه ولز (آلاسکا)”
- Persian: “فرودگاه ولز (الاسکا)”
- Persian: “فرودگاه ولز”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Wales”
- Russian: “Аэропорт Уэльс”
- Russian: “Уэйлс (аэропорт, Аляска)”
- Russian: “Уэйлс”
- Russian: “Уэльс (аэропорт, Аляска)”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи вилз (олоско)”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи вилз”
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