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Basin City Airfield

97WA · Mesa, Washington · Franklin County · map

Basin City Airfield is a private airport, 6 miles west of Mesa, Washington, 722 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 2,200 feet of asphalt and grass.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA 97WA
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 722 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: every day, daylight hours
On the chart: Seattle sectional
Magnetic variation: 19E
In the FAA's files since: July 1980

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
04/22	2,200 × 50 ft	Asphalt and grass
H1	14 × 16 ft	Asphalt

Aircraft registered in Mesa from the FAA register

20 aircraft are registered to owners in Mesa, Washington: 15 piston singles, 3 gliders, 1 helicopter, 1 balloon. 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

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Othello Municipal S70 · 13 nm north Richland Airport RLD · 18 nm south Tri-Cities Airport PSC · 19 nm south Warden Airport 2S4 · 23 nm north Lower Monumental State Airport W09 · 26 nm east Dorman Field 5WA1 · 4 nm south · private Slinkard Airfield WN31 · 4 nm east · private WNP-2 Plant Support Facility Heliport WN77 · 11 nm southwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Runway 04/22 1400 feet asphalt on northeast end; remaining 800 feet grass.
Airport open to the public land at your own risk.
Helicopter and spray planes working during the season, open to the pub, lnd at your own risk.

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.