Lake Chelan Airport
S10 · Chelan, Washington · Chelan County · map
Lake Chelan Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Chelan/Port of Chelan, 3 miles northeast of Chelan, Washington, 1,263 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 3,506 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 47 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 16,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA S10
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Chelan/Port of Chelan
- Elevation
- 1,263 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1938
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 3,506 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 02: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 448 ft, road 15 ft high 203 ft from the end
- Runway 20: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 199 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency. |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | · Automated UNICOM. |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 16,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Chelan from the FAA register
39 aircraft are registered to owners in Chelan, Washington: 28 piston singles, 6 helicopters, 4 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 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 Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 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
- Estabd prior to 15 may 1959.
- Runway 20 is prefd approach runway.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- PIL0TS bring own ropes.
- Automated UNICOM.
- SELF-SERVICE fuel available 24/7
- Runway 02, road 0-200 feet from threshold on both sides, road sign +7 feet, 170 feet from threshold, 77 feet L, 2 feet utility box 110 feet from threshold, 78 feet L.
- Runway 20 road in prim surface 125 feet from threshold; road at 124 feet from threshold and 4 feet signs 119 feet from threshold; 3 feet sign 18 feet from threshold, 67 feet R; 2 feet sign 18 feet from threshold, 72 feet R; 2 feet pipe 81 feet from threshold, 15 feet L; 2 feet sign 23 feet from threshold, 79 L; 5 feet sign 188 feet from threshold, 65 feet R.
- Approach slope 46:1 from displaced threshold.
- Runway 20 approach slope 14:1 to +19 feet road at 322 feet from displcd thld.
- May through october parachute jumping activities on airfield.
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.