Grants Pass Airport
3S8 · Grants Pass, Oregon · Josephine County · map
Grants Pass Airport is a public-use airport owned by Josephine County Airports, 5 miles northwest of Grants Pass, Oregon, 1,130 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 4,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3S8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Josephine County Airports
- Elevation
- 1,130 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Klamath Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1959
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: tree 72 ft high 1,901 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Automated UNICOM. |
| Approach and departure 6:00 am to 11:00 pm | 124.3 | |
| 3S8 AWOS-3PT | 120.0 | |
| King Mountain Center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.55 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 541-955-3392.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Grants Pass from the FAA register
90 aircraft are registered to owners in Grants Pass, Oregon: 76 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 3 helicopters, 2 turboprops, 2 gliders. 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 · 17 since 1982, 1 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 13 and 31; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31; PAPI runway 31 - the common traffic frequency.
- Automated UNICOM.
- 100LL and JET-A available H24 with credit card.
- Runway 31 calm wind runway.
- Aiming point marked.
- Aiming point marked.
- Unusable beyond 8 degreess left and 5 degreess right of centerline. Not for turbojet operations use.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.