Portland International Jetport
PWM · KPWM · Portland, Maine · Cumberland County · map
Portland International Jetport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Portland, 2 miles west of Portland, Maine, 76 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 11/29, is 7,200 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PWM · ICAO KPWM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Portland
- Elevation
- 76 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 5:45 am to 12:00 am
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 7,200 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 6,100 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), trees 42 ft high 2,000 ft from the end
- Runway 29: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 166 ft high 6,400 ft from the end
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 450 ft, 5,150 ft available for landing, tree 20 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 500 ft, 5,150 ft available for landing, tree 60 ft high 1,300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower · VFR and adzy | 120.9 | Portland |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Pwm and automated weather (ASOS) | 119.05 | Portland |
| Clearance delivery | 119.95 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.725 | |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.9 | Portland |
| Clearance delivery | 123.65 | |
| Clearance delivery | 123.8 | |
| Clearance delivery Pre Taxi Clearance Contact approach control | 124.05 | |
| Clearance delivery | 124.6 | |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace · Scogs and star arriving from headings 112 to 292 | 119.75 | Portland |
| Approach and departure arriving from headings 293 to 111 | 120.4 | |
| Class C airspace · Approach and departure Mstic DP | 125.5 | Portland |
| Approach and departure | 128.35 | |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 132.4 | Portland |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Portland |
| Pwm and vot | 111.0 | |
| Waterboro and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.2 | Portland |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 207-419-5584.
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Aircraft registered in Portland from the FAA register
29 aircraft are registered to owners in Portland, Maine: 19 piston singles, 4 business jets, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Maine.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 since 1982, 3 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- No tgls durg snow removal.
- When tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 29; runway end identifier lights runway 18 and 36; tdzl runway 11; cntln runway 11/29; PAPI runway 11, 29, 18 and 36; high-intensity runway lights runway 11/29; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- General aviation customs/img facility located at cargo apron. Aircraft arrg/depg customs must use extreme ctn when navigating on the cargo apron to minimize jet blast exposure to hngrs and aircraft.
- ALSF-II becomes ssals when the control tower closed.
- Paew adjacent to runways nights; gnd vehicles monitor 120.9 when the control tower closed.
- Birds occasionally on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Pushback onto taxiway a required from terminal gates 1-8, taxiway C required from terminal gate 1A. aircraft may not push short of taxiway a from gates 1-8 nor short of taxiway C from gate 1A. contact gnd 121.9. Advise pushback operates you have alpha or charlie prior to push.
- Noise abatement procedures in afct for landing runway 11 and departure runway 29.
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.