Western Spur Airport
ID48 · Athol, Idaho · Kootenai County · map
Western Spur Airport is a private airport, 1 mile south of Athol, Idaho, 2,350 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 2,800 feet of gravel.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ID48
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 2,350 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1985
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 2,800 × 100 ft | Gravel |
- Runway 16: right-hand traffic pattern, trees on the approach
- Runway 34: trees on the approach
Aircraft registered in Athol from the FAA register
42 aircraft are registered to owners in Athol, Idaho: 39 piston singles, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Idaho.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided coordination is done with henley airport due to overlapping traffic patterns.
- Aircraft are to overfly the airport at 500 feet above the pattern altitude of 3,300 above sea level to dtrm wind drctn. Procd to the aprop psn over the raliroad tracks either north or south of the airport. Flw the railroad tracks inbound to the final approach crs to lnd.
- Runway not plowed winter months.
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.