Wiley Post Airport
PWA · KPWA · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · Oklahoma County · map
Wiley Post Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Oklahoma City, 7 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1,300 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 17L/35R, is 7,199 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PWA · ICAO KPWA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Oklahoma City
- Elevation
- 1,300 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1943
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17L/35R | 7,199 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 17R/35L | 5,002 × 75 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 4,562 × 100 ft | Concrete, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17L: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, 6,844 ft available for landing
- Runway 35R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 355 ft, 6,844 ft available for landing
- Runway 17R: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 35L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 13: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 126.9 | Wiley Post |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 128.725 | Wiley Post |
| Ground | 121.7 | Wiley Post |
| Approach and departure arriving from headings 081 to 170 | 120.45 | Wiley Post |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (FUNNL) · Juddg Rnav Star arriving from headings 001 to 080; North | 124.2 | Wiley Post |
| Approach and departure · Basts Rnav Star · Ccash Rnav Star arriving from headings 171 to 360; South | 124.6 | Wiley Post |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Wiley Post |
| Wiley Post Rco | 122.4 | Wiley Post |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 405-798-2013.
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Aircraft registered in Oklahoma City from the FAA register
1,095 aircraft are registered to owners in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 570 piston singles, 231 business jets, 100 turboprops, 91 piston twins, 64 helicopters. 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 Oklahoma.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 25 since 1982, 5 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
- Pre dates the act.
- 0400-1300Z.
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 17L and 35R; runway end identifier lights runway 17R and 35L; high-intensity runway lights runway 17L/35R; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17R/35L, 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 17L and 35R, 17R and 35L on continuously.
- Pattern altitude runway 17R/35L 600 feet above ground level, all other runways 1000 feet above ground level.
- 100LL available H24 self service with credit card.
- Closed 0400-1300Z; aircraft ovr 12500 pounds gross weight NA.
- Unlighted 0400-1300Z.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 17L/35R noise abatement procedure in effect; departure aircraft 12500 pounds or gtr climb at maximum rate consistent with safety to 1500 feet above ground level then reduce pwr and climb rate to 3000 feet above ground level or 2 NM from airport depending on air traffic control and safety conditions.
- Exp ponding durg wet condition on runway 17L/35R at int of runway 13/31.
- Surface condition rprtd MON-FRI 1300-0400Z.
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.