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Lower Granite State Airport

00W · Colfax, Washington · Whitman County · map

Lower Granite State Airport is a public-use airport owned by Wsdot Aviation Division, 12 miles south of Colfax, Washington, 719 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,400 feet of gravel.

The airport

Codes: FAA 00W
Kind: Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner: Wsdot Aviation Division
Elevation: 719 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Seattle sectional
Magnetic variation: 19E
In the FAA's files since: July 1966

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
14/32	3,400 × 50 ft	Gravel, fair

Runway 14: trees 55 ft high 1,068 ft from the end
Runway 32: hill 2 ft high 70 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

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Aircraft registered in Colfax from the FAA register

29 aircraft are registered to owners in Colfax, Washington: 25 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Tlc Flying INC 6

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Washington.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Port Of Whitman Business Air Center Airport S94 · 11 nm north Pullman/Moscow Regional PUW · 14 nm east Snake River 78U · 24 nm southeast Little Goose Lock And Dam Airport 16W · 24 nm west Lewiston/Nez Perce County LWS · 25 nm southeast Lower Granite Dam Heliport WN43 · 1 nm south · private Dye Seed Ranch INC Airport 58WA · 10 nm south · private Whitman Community Hospital Heliport 70WA · 12 nm north · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Pvdd all traffic patterns are established on the northeast side of the airport due to high terrain to the west.
Pilots provd own tiedown chains.
Hill +500'; 8000' from threshold.
Power line +1200'; 6000' from threshold.
Gravel portions of runway surface rough and soft.
Vehicles; pedestrians, and animals on and inov runway.
Steep drop off on both sides of runway.
No winter snow removal operations.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.