Ralph Wien Memorial Airport

IATA: OTZ
ICAO: PAOT
FAA LID: OTZ

OTZ

Location of airport in Alaska

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region

Serves

Kotzebue, Alaska

Elevation AMSL

14 ft / 4 m

Coordinates

66°53′05″N 162°35′55″W / 66.88472°N 162.59861°W

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	5,900	1,798	Asphalt
17/35	3,876	1,181	Gravel

Statistics (2014)

Aircraft operations	60,000
Based aircraft	43

Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Aircraft operations	60,000
Based aircraft	43

Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (IATA: OTZ, ICAO: PAOT, FAA LID: OTZ) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Kotzebue, a city on the Baldwin Peninsula in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Ralph Wien Memorial Airport covers an area of 1,480 acres (600 ha) which contains two runways. Runway 9/27 has an asphalt paved surface measuring 5,900 x 150 ft (1,798 x 46 m) and runway 18/36 has a gravel surface measuring 3,876 x 90 ft (1,181 x 27 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 11, 2008, the airport had 59,860 aircraft operations, an average of 164 per day: 62% general aviation, 33% air taxi, 3% scheduled commercial and 2% military. There are 52 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single engine and 23% multi-engine.

The airport is named in memory of Ralph Wien, a native of Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, born in 1897. He and his younger brother Noel Wien, arrived in Alaska in 1924 and together founded Wien Air Alaska, the first airline in Alaska. He died when the Bellanca aircraft he was flying crashed in full view of onlookers in Kotzebue on Columbus Day, 1930. Fr. Philip Dolen, Superior general of Alaskan Catholic missions, and Fr. William Walsh, a diocesan priest from Oakland, California, who were on board, also died in the accident.

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