Lake Billy Chinook Airport
5S5 · Culver, Oregon · Jefferson County · map
Lake Billy Chinook Airport is a public-use airport owned by Lake Billy Chinook Airport Dev CORP, 6 miles west of Culver, Oregon, 2,695 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 2,500 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5S5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Lake Billy Chinook Airport Dev CORP
- Elevation
- 2,695 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1969
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 2,500 × 32 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 16: threshold displaced 660 ft, trees 28 ft high 329 ft from the end
- Runway 34: trees 30 ft high 325 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Culver from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Culver, Oregon: 14 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 Oregon.
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
- Animals on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Frequency: 122.900
- +3 rock berm at 0-30 feet from runway end and 60-85 feet L of centerline. 18 feet road at 65 feet xng centerline. +20 feet trees at 130-200 feet from runway end and 80-125 feet L and R of centerline.
- Runway 16 non-standard displaced thld markings; runway 16/34 non-standard runway markings no numbers or centerline.
- Runway 16 approach ratio 25:1 to displaced thld.
- Loose gravel on surface at various locations alg full length of runway.
- Runway 16/34 restricted runway sight distance.
- Grass area south. Of runway not for aircraft operations.
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.