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West Ranch Airport

79WT · Ellensburg, Washington · Kittitas County · map

West Ranch Airport is a private airport, 8 miles north of Ellensburg, Washington, 1,962 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 2,223 feet of grass.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA 79WT
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,962 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Seattle sectional
In the FAA's files since: January 2012

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
14/32	2,223 × 50 ft	Grass, fair

Aircraft registered in Ellensburg from the FAA register

76 aircraft are registered to owners in Ellensburg, Washington: 61 piston singles, 5 helicopters, 4 piston twins, 4 drones, 1 glider. 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:

Central Washington University 18Cline Air Services LLC 4Airoterra LLC 2Aircraft Holdings LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Washington.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Bowers Field ELN · 4 nm southeast DE Vere Field 2W1 · 12 nm northwest Cle Elum Municipal S93 · 14 nm northwest Pangborn Memorial EAT · 24 nm northeast Easton State Airport ESW · 26 nm west Cashmere-Dryden Airport 8S2 · 26 nm north Kittitas Valley Healthcare Heliport 82WA · 7 nm south · private J K D Farms Airport WN64 · 9 nm southeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided VFR operations and pvt use only.

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.