R & K Skyranch Airport
8W9 · Rochester, Washington · Thurston County · map
R & K Skyranch Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile north of Rochester, Washington, 149 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 2,480 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8W9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 149 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 850 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1971
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 2,480 × 35 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 16: threshold displaced 700 ft, trees on the approach
- Runway 34: threshold displaced 327 ft, trees 119 ft high 648 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Rochester from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Rochester, Washington: 16 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter. 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 Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- No touch and go landings.
- Approach slope 7:1 to displaced threshold.
- Approach slope 50:1 to displaced threshold.
- Runway 16 first 1,100 feet has shrubs and 70 feet+ trees approx 15 feet from runway edges.
- Deer in the vicinity of runway.
- Trees and buildings in prim surface area.
- Fence parallels both sides of runway 50 feet from centerline.
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.