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Christensen Field

8WA6 · Royal City, Washington · Grant County · map

Christensen Field is a private airport, 2 miles northeast of Royal City, Washington, 1,150 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 2,500 feet of asphalt.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA 8WA6
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,150 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Seattle sectional
Magnetic variation: 19E
In the FAA's files since: March 1976

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
07/25	2,500 × 22 ft	Asphalt	Low-intensity lights

Runway 07: building 15 ft high 500 ft from the end
Runway 25: power line 30 ft high 1,500 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Royal City from the FAA register

10 aircraft are registered to owners in Royal City, Washington: 9 piston singles, 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:

Callahan Mfg INC 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

Desert Aire Regional M94 · 19 nm southwest Moses Lake Municipal W20 · 20 nm northeast Quincy Municipal 80T · 20 nm northwest Grant County International MWH · 21 nm northeast Othello Municipal S70 · 22 nm east Warden Airport 2S4 · 22 nm east Ephrata Municipal EPH · 23 nm north Red Rock Field 2WA2 · 2 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Established traffic patterns north of airport.

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.