Talkeetna Airport (IATA: TKA, ICAO: PATK, FAA LID: TKA) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.9 km) east of the central business district of Talkeetna, in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Talkeetna Airport covers an area of 624 acres (253 ha) at an elevation of 358 feet (109 m) above mean sea level.
[1] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2009, the airport had 30,000 aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day: 67% general aviation, 32% air taxi, and 2% military.
[1] Alaska Airlines served Talkeetna from the mid 1950s to the early 1960s on a flag stop basis via a local route between Anchorage and Fairbanks with prop aircraft such as the Douglas DC-3 and the Curtiss C-46.
In February 2023, a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache based at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska crashed at the airport.