Pru Field
33S · Ritzville, Washington · Adams County · map
Pru Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Ritzville, 1 mile west of Ritzville, Washington, 1,801 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 3,433 feet of asphalt. It has 1 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,200 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 33S
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Ritzville
- Elevation
- 1,801 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
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 3,433 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, power line 27 ft high 1,282 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the right, threshold displaced 820 ft, 2,614 ft available for landing, tree 48 ft high 540 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,200, 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 Ritzville from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Ritzville, Washington: 1 piston single. 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 Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Estabd prior to 15 may 1959.
- Airport closed when snow/ice on runway.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 and PAPI runways 01 and 19 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pilots bring ropes.
- Houses, road, signs, and trees from 0-200 feet of thld. 60 feet tree 170 feet from thld, 70 feet right.
- Markings are faded.
- Markings are faded.
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.