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PFKW Kwethluk

18
WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 18 — favored by the wind (12 kt at 150° true)

Based on wind only — no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. No ADS-B traffic data available.

certainty: 90% evidence: WEAK no tower now

N 18 36

Wind 150° true at 12 kt · VFR · 19 min old · from PPIT (30.1 nm away)

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18 99% 3199 ft · 8 kt head, 9 kt x-left
36 <1% 3199 ft · 8 kt TAIL, 9 kt x-right
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Runway 18

Runway 36

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISUNAVAILABLE No D-ATIS at this field
METAROK 19 min Nearest station PPIT (30.1 nm away)
ADSBUNAVAILABLE No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAMOK
CIFPNOT_CONFIGURED Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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PFKW field & runways

Kwethluk, Kwethluk, Alaska. Field elevation 25 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 14.0°E on record, 9.3°E today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.28°/year west — about 1° every 4 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against today's declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
RunwayTrueMagnetic Number LengthSurfacePattern Notes
18 195.9° 186.6° runway 19 by the rule today · 6.6° past 3,199 ft GRVL
36 15.9° 6.6° runway 1 by the rule today · 6.6° past 3,199 ft GRVL

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