Ralph Wien Memorial Airport

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

[1] 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.

[1] Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.

[citation needed] The airport is named in memory of Ralph Wien, a native of Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, born in 1897.

[3][4] He died when the Bellanca aircraft he was flying crashed in full view of onlookers in Kotzebue on Columbus Day, 1930.

Kotzebue AK airport photographed from a Boeing 737-400 combo aircraft of Alaska Airlines