Port Elsner Airport
75WA · White Salmon, Washington · Klickitat County · map
Port Elsner Airport is a private airport, 4 miles north of White Salmon, Washington, 610 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 1,600 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 75WA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 610 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 1,600 × 40 ft | Grass |
- Runway 17: tree 200 ft high 100 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Columbia Gorge Rgnl/The Dalles Municipal (17 nm southeast), Portland-Troutdale Airport (42 nm west), Portland International (49 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Ken Jernstedt Airfield (8 nm south), Columbia Gorge Rgnl/The Dalles Municipal (17 nm southeast), Goldendale Airport (27 nm east), Grove Field (40 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Washington · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Filed for record purposes.
- Land to the north unless there is a strong south wind takeoff to the south.
- +hills.
- Runway 35 primarily for landing and runway 17 primarily for tof unless winds are prohibitive.
- Note: night operations prohibited.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in White Salmon from the FAA register
37 aircraft are registered to owners in White Salmon, Washington: 33 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter, 1 glider, 1 drone. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Washington.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Sage Tech Flight Club LLC 1 aircraft · Underwood, 7 miles away
- Waaam Volunteer Flying Association LLC 1 aircraft · Hood River, 9 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in White Salmon:
- Archer Air LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in White Salmon 37 aircraft · 33 piston singles, 1 piston twins, 1 helicopters
- Delta Sierra Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Archer Air LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Sage Tech Flight Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Waaam Volunteer Flying Association LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Washington 2,709 since 1982 · 359 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Washington 131 landing places
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/75WA.json.
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 27, 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.