Anacortes Airport
74S · Anacortes, Washington · Skagit County · map
Anacortes Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Port of Anacortes, 2 miles west of Anacortes, Washington, 246 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,018 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 74S
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Port of Anacortes
- Elevation
- 246 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 21E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,018 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, tree 22 ft high 767 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 20 ft high 1,158 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 128.25 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Anacortes from the FAA register
106 aircraft are registered to owners in Anacortes, Washington: 96 piston singles, 4 helicopters, 3 business jets, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin. 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 Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 14 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights and runway end identifier lightss runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pilots bring own tie-downs.
- Military arrival corridor north and west of airport.
- Runway 36 preferred calm wind runway.
- No touch and go landings.
- Deer and coyote near mov areas.
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.