River Bend Airport
9WA3 · River Bend Lodge, Washington · Pend Oreille County · map
River Bend Airport is a private airport owned by River Bend INC, 9 miles north of River Bend Lodge, Washington, 2,040 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 3,750 feet of grass and dirt. It has 1 water landing area.
The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.
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 9WA3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- River Bend INC
- Elevation
- 2,040 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
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1980
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04W/22W | 5,000 × 100 ft | Water | |
| 03/21 | 3,750 × 60 ft | Grass and dirt, poor | |
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 04W: hill 1,000 ft high 10,000 ft from the end
- Runway 22W: right-hand traffic pattern, hill 680 ft high 4,000 ft from the end
- Runway 03: trees 160 ft high 150 ft from the end
- Runway 21: right-hand traffic pattern, fence on the approach
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Chewelah Municipal (20 nm southwest), Colville Municipal (24 nm west), Deer Park Airport (31 nm south), Sandpoint Airport (31 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Chewelah Municipal (20 nm southwest), Colville Municipal (24 nm west), Deer Park Airport (31 nm south), Sandpoint Airport (31 nm east).
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
- Determination pending.
- Northeast end runway 03 unmkd; lnd at bottom of hill beyond windsock; road from threshold runway 21 to buildings upslope at 5 degrees grade.
- Diameter of circular landing/takeoff area.
- Rough and uneven; soft when wet.
- 4' fence each side of runway at runway edges.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in River Bend Lodge from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list River Bend Lodge, WA as the owner's town.
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:
- Economy Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Cusick, 10 miles away
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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Washington 2,709 since 1982 · 358 in the last ten years
- Economy Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Washington 130 landing places
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/9WA3.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.