Orcas Island Airport
ORS · KORS · Eastsound, Washington · San Juan County · map
Orcas Island Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Port of Orcas, 1 mile north of Eastsound, Washington, 35 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 2,901 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
Weather right now KORS · observed 1:15 pm PDT (20:15 UTC), 21 minutes ago
LIFR very low ceiling or visibility
- Wind from the north (350°) at 4 knots
- Visibility 5 miles
- Sky: overcast at 400 feet
- Weather: mist
- Temperature 55°F (13°C), dew point 55°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 30.20 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KORS 062015Z AUTO 35004KT 5SM BR OVC004 13/13 A3020 RMK AO2
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ORS · ICAO KORS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Port of Orcas
- Elevation
- 35 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,000 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 2,901 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: PAPI, four lights on the right, road 10 ft high 387 ft from the end
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 128 ft high 2,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 128.25 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.2 | |
| Approach and departure | 132.7 | |
| Ors and aWOS-3P | 135.425 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 360-376-6045.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Eastsound from the FAA register
41 aircraft are registered to owners in Eastsound, Washington: 38 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 0 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
- Established prior to 5/15/59.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 16 and 34; PAPI runway 16; medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency. Runway end identifier lights runway 16 and 34 photocell not available daylight.
- Credit card self service H24.
- Runway 34 calm wind runway.
- 3 feet sign 126 feet L and 19 feet from threshold; ditch 100 feet R of threshold.
- Faded.
- Faded.
- PAPI unsubl beyond 2 degreess left and beyond 5 degreess right of centerline.
- Noise abatement procedures in effect - amgr.
- Adnl transient grass tie-downs south of segemented circle.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of runway.
- Night circling approach NA from west side of runway.
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.