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Tailwheel Airport

6OR4 · Prineville, Oregon · Crook County · map

Tailwheel Airport is a private airport, 3 miles southeast of Prineville, Oregon, 3,130 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 1,700 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 6OR4
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 3,130 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Klamath Falls sectional
Magnetic variation: 18E
In the FAA's files since: August 1994

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
12/30	1,700 × 100 ft	Grass

Runway 12: power line 22 ft high 150 ft from the end
Runway 30: trees on the approach

Aircraft registered in Prineville from the FAA register

74 aircraft are registered to owners in Prineville, Oregon: 58 piston singles, 5 business jets, 3 helicopters, 2 piston twins, 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:

Western Radio Services CO 2Three Bears Aviation LLC 2Smaf Environmental LLC 2Ochoco Wood Products LLC 2

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

Prineville Airport S39 · 5 nm west Roberts Fld/Redmond Municipal RDM · 15 nm west Bend Municipal BDN · 20 nm southwest Lake Billy Chinook Airport 5S5 · 27 nm northwest Madras Municipal S33 · 28 nm northwest Hideaway Airport OR85 · 3 nm east · private Dry Creek Airpark OG21 · 5 nm south · private Prineville Crook County Heliport 77OR · 5 nm west · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Watch for deer; elk; cattle and irrigation pipe on runway.
Land runway 12; takeoff runway 30; no straight in approach.

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.