Wapinitia Airport
OR53 · Wapinitia, Oregon · Wasco County · map
Wapinitia Airport is a private airport, 2 miles northeast of Wapinitia, Oregon, 1,910 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 2,400 feet of grass.
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 OR53
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,910 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
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1989
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 2,400 × 88 ft | Grass |
- Runway 21: poles 40 ft high 37 ft from the end
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: Madras Municipal (29 nm south), Columbia Gorge Rgnl/The Dalles Municipal (29 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Madras Municipal (29 nm south), Columbia Gorge Rgnl/The Dalles Municipal (29 nm north), Ken Jernstedt Airfield (34 nm north), Goldendale Airport (44 nm north).
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 Oregon · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Runway could be soft drg winter.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Wapinitia from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Wapinitia, OR as the owner's town.
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 Oregon 1,862 since 1982 · 277 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Oregon 103 landing places
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/OR53.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 30, 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.