Sandy River Airport
03S · Sandy, Oregon · Clackamas County · map
Sandy River Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northeast of Sandy, Oregon, 704 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,115 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 03S
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 704 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, sunrise to sunset
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1955
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,115 × 100 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 08: trees 142 ft high 583 ft from the end
- Runway 26: road 13 ft high 5 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Sandy from the FAA register
29 aircraft are registered to owners in Sandy, Oregon: 16 piston singles, 12 helicopters, 1 drone. 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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Oregon.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Airport estbd 1947.
- Runway 08/26 not marked.
- Prior permission required for LT activate code. Must have fam with AP.
- Runway lights delineate only 70' of runway width.
- 10 feet concrete construction blx at 20-80 feet from runway end left and right of centerline.
- 60' tree at threshold at 50' L of centerline. Beyond road, trees to 90' at 400-730' from runway end both sides of centerline. Obstruction clearance slope is 8:1; +100 trees at 50-100' L of centerline flanking runway.
- Extensive ultralight activate on and in the vicinity of airport.
- (A23) ultralight operations use right traffic and 600' above ground level pattern altitude; do not land on grass adjacent to runway.
- Large trees vicinity.
- Runway 26 has a 6 feet fence 36 feet right of centerline alg edge from threshold to 300 feet.
- East side of runway safety area has a 5 feet gentle rise in mid of section.
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.