Deering Airport

Deering Airport (PADE) is a medium airport in Deering, AK. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code PADE or IATA code DRG. It sits in North America.

Deering Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 3,320 ft (1,012 m), a constrained-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the King Air, PC-12, and other short-field turboprops. In practice this restricts most jet operations; turboprops and short-field specialists only.

Deering Airport sits near sea level at 21 ft.

Local operations run on America/Nome. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess inventory for PADE updates continuously as operators publish new empty legs and one-way repositioning trips. Pricing on each leg is available with a free account, and an inventory alert will email you the moment a leg appears on the route you care about.

Regional fields like PADE are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Deering Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Deering, a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.