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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Coeur D'Alene Airport (10 nm southwest), Sandpoint Airport (23 nm north), Felts Field (29 nm southwest), Deer Park Airport (29 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Coeur D'Alene Airport (10 nm southwest), Brooks Seaplane Base (16 nm south), Sandpoint Airport (23 nm north), Felts Field (29 nm southwest).
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 Idaho · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Athol from the FAA register
40 aircraft are registered to owners in Athol, Idaho: 37 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Idaho.
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:
- All Sports Aviation LLC 5 aircraft · Cocolalla, 11 miles away All Sports Aviation is a flight school offering pilot training at two locations: Sandpoint Airport (KSZT) in Idaho and Deer Park Airport (KDEW) in Washington.
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
- Aircraft registered in Athol 40 aircraft · 37 piston singles, 1 piston twins, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Athol Aggregate LLC 2 aircraft in town
- All Sports Aviation LLC 5 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Idaho 1,535 since 1982 · 288 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Idaho 129 landing places
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/ID48.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.