Welcome to Anchorage, wide open airspace, challenging weather, precipitous mountain terrian and friendly controlling.

Anchorage ARTCC (ZAN) is the northern, eastern and western-most US center. Anchorage ARTCC has control responsibility for more than two-million square miles of airspace including three areas of specialty and 15 separate sectors. ZAN interacts with ten Area Control Centers (ACC) in the international community, including Tokyo,  Vancouver, Edmonton, Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and the Oakland ARTCC.   ZAN’s airspace encompasses more military airspace (60,780 square miles) than any other ARTCC.   Our airspace is located within the infamous “ring of fire” and contains at least 33 presently active volcanoes which can require NOTAM issuance and airspace rerouting due to an eruption. Our state relies on the air traffic, as Juneau (population of about 31,262) is the only state capital is the US with no road access. It can only be reached by air or sea. As the Alaska motto goes "North to the future!"

Kenneth Haught
Anchorage Air Traffic Manager

Jonathan Neilsen: Anchorage GroundAfter transfering into the Anchorage ARTCC, John proved us on Ground with an outstanding performance. He now has his Ground, full major certification. Will ANC_TWR be his next for this S3?

 

Mitch Byers: Anchorage GroundAfter transfering into the Anchorage ARTCC, Mitch proved us on Ground with an outstanding performance. He now has his Ground, full major certification.

 

Alex Seeberger: Anchorage ApproachAnchorage welcomes Alex Seeberger to the Anchorage Tracon. Alex successfully completed the Senior Student exam and we hope to see him on the scopes real soon!