Airports / Alaska / JLA
Quartz Creek Airport
JLACooper Landing, AlaskaELEV 450 FT
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Field elevation
Nearest alternate
Field standing
23 nm
To the nearest alternate
Seward Airport (SWD) — 6 fields within 50 nm.
Overview
Quartz Creek Airport (JLA) sits in Cooper Landing, Alaska, where it functions as a general aviation field. Field elevation is 450 feet above sea level. Free of scheduled airline operations, it serves business aviation, charter flights, and local general aviation.
While no charter operators list JLA as their home base, the field is reachable for repositioned charter aircraft from nearby bases. The closest alternate fields are Seward Airport (SWD, 23 nm), Soldotna Airport (SXQ, 39 nm), and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC, 42 nm).
Trip costs from JLA are driven by the aircraft category flown and how far it must reposition. Browse operators flying from the area or estimate a trip cost from JLA to plan your flight.
Field capability
ICAO
JLA
IATA
JLA
FAA / Local
JLA
Elevation
450 ft
Coordinates
60.4842° N · 149.7229° W
Airspace
G · GolfClass G — GolfUncontrolled field — no tower. Pilots self-announce and sequence themselves on the common traffic advisory frequency.Source: FAA NASR class airspace
Size
Small
Scheduled svc
No
Elevation vs AK fields
state range 2–3,318 ft
At 450 ft, JLA sits higher than 78% of the 285 Alaska fields on the register.
Access & alternates
Closest alternate fields by great-circle distance — every listing links to its own field brief.
- 23nmSWDSeward AirportSeward
- 39nmSXQSoldotna AirportSoldotna
- 42nmANCTed Stevens Anchorage International AirportAnchorage
- 44nmMRIMerrill FieldAnchorage
- 45nmENAKenai Municipal AirportKenai
- 46nmEDFElmendorf Air Force BaseAnchorage
Location
Open the full mapJLA · Quartz Creek Airport · Cooper Landing, AK
From the ramp
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