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The latest FAA dataset has this airport's id as "54X", but that could be a mistake on their part. They've made worse mistakes in the past.

The airport is shown on the sectional chart as a circle without the 3 bumps, which means no services. Your best option may be to go to KTPH.

If you want to see cluelessness in action, google for the OY-JET video. A jet registered in Denmark "landed" at Bader Field, landing downwind on a runway NOTAMed against jet operations, touched down at about the half way point on a runway that would have been too small for that jet even without a tail wind and without leaving half the runway behind them, skidded into the bay, and then after everybody was evacuated one of the jet engines seemed to start up and start pushing the plane around the bay.

Talkeetna airport opened in 1949. Unless you're over 60 years old, the airport got there before you did.

This airport is called "Denali Airport", but it's private. I suspect you're looking for the nearby "McKinley National Park Airport" (PAIN) that belongs to the Park Service:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_National_Park_Airport

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