Owyhee Airport
10U · Owyhee, Nevada · Elko County · map
Owyhee Airport is a public-use airport, 4 miles west of Owyhee, Nevada, 5,377 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 4,700 feet of asphalt. The FAA counts about 1,980 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 10U
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 5,377 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Salt Lake City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 4,700 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Bliss and center (remote transmitter) Low | 118.05 | |
| 10U AWOS-3PT | 118.525 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 208-696-6007.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 1,980, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Owyhee from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Owyhee, Nevada: 2 piston singles. 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 Nevada.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estabd prior to may 1959.
- Bird act in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23; PAPI runway 05 and 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- PAPI unusable beyond 3.25 NM due to trrn.
- TIE-DOWN chains not provided.
- 3 helicopter parking pads adjacent to main ramp.
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.