Lihue Airport
LIH · PHLI · Lihue, Hawaii · Kauai County · map
Lihue Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles east of Lihue, Hawaii, 152 feet above sea level. It has 5 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 6,500 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LIH · ICAO PHLI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 152 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 12:00 am
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Hawaiian Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1950
Runways 5
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 6,500 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 6,500 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| H1 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete, good | |
| H2 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete | |
| H3 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete |
- Runway 03: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 21: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 205 ft, 6,295 ft available for landing, tree 4 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 35: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.9 | Lihue |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Lih and automated weather (ASOS) | 127.2 | Lihue |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) · Clearance delivery (secondary) · Mount Kaala Center (remote transmitter) Contact hcf when lih tower closed and unable 126.5/269.4; Low | 134.0 | Lihue |
| Ground | 121.9 | Lihue |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Lihue |
| Mount Kaala Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 126.5 | Lihue |
| Helicopter and operations | 128.4 | Lihue |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 808-855-3098.
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Aircraft registered in Lihue from the FAA register
30 aircraft are registered to owners in Lihue, Hawaii: 20 helicopters, 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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Hawaii.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- <crash and fire equipment available 24 hours.
- Stadium flood lights 125 feet AGL/282 feet MSL/ 2400 feet southwest from runway 03 threshold.
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 35; runway end identifier lights runways 03, 17, and 21; PAPI runways 03, 17, 21, and 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21; high-intensity runway lights runway 17/35; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Helicopter major.
- Pattern altitude single engine 1000 (851) multi engine 1500 (1351).
- Dist rmng signs left side of runway 35.
- Unusable beyond 1.5 NM and 7 degreess left of centerline and offset 9.5 degrees east of centerline due to rapidly rising trrn.
- Unusable beyond 5 degreess right of centerline.
- Intersection departures from taxiway D on runway 17/35 not authorized.
- Military aircraft make fuel arrangements before arrival.
- Due to nonvisibility the control tower unable to provide air traffic control service between aircraft and/or vehicles on taxiway B from 220 feet to 500 feet south of taxiway D.
- Runway 17/35 weight lmt DC10-10 340000 pounds; DC10-30 430000 pounds.
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.