Richmond Airport
08R · West Kingston, Rhode Island · Washington County · map
Richmond Airport is a public-use airport owned by Gordon Realty, INC, 3 miles west of West Kingston, Rhode Island, 130 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 2,129 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 08R
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Gordon Realty, INC
- Elevation
- 130 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1955
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 2,129 × 30 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 11: trees 45 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 29: tri-color on the left, threshold displaced 130 ft, tree 65 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in West Kingston from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in West Kingston, Rhode Island: 1 piston single, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Rhode Island.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- VFR use only. Helicopter asp: filed for record purposes only.
- Rotating beacon out of service indefinitely.
- Ultralights on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 11/29; windsock lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights located 30 feet from edge of pavement.
- Runway 11, +23 feet trees 150 feet from thld, 50 feet left; +27 feet trees 160 feet from thld, 110 feet right.
- Runway 29, 11 feet wide road 90 feet from thld, on centerline; +40 feet trees 125 feet from thld, 110 feet left; +65 feet trees 200 feet from thld, 45 feet right.
- Displaced threshold lighted and marked with white bar and NR.
- Approach ratio 5:1 to displaced threshold.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 11 closed nights.
- +40 feet dropoff, 150 feet from runway 29 end; +10 feet dropoff, 200 feet from runway 11 end.
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.