Nelson Lagoon Airport

Nelson Lagoon Airport (IATA: NLG, ICAO: PAOU, FAA LID: OUL, formerly Z73) is a state-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) east of the central business district of Nelson Lagoon,^[1] in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline service to Cold Bay Airport is provided by Peninsula Airways (PenAir).^[3]

Nelson Lagoon Airport
IATA: NLG ICAO: PAOU FAA LID: OUL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Alaska DOT&PF - Central Region
Serves	Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
Elevation AMSL	14 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	56°00′27″N 161°09′37″W / 56.00750°N 161.16028°W / 56.00750; -161.16028
Map
NLG Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 8/26 4,000 1,219 Gravel
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 302 Enplanements (2008) 290
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1][2]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, this airport had 290 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, a decrease of 4% from the 302 enplanements in 2007.^[2] Nelson Lagoon Airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2009-2013), which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.^[4]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned OUL by the FAA and NLG by the IATA^[5] (which assigned OUL to Oulu Airport in Oulu, Finland^[6]).