Prineville Airport
S39 · Prineville, Oregon · Crook County · map
Prineville Airport is a public-use airport owned by Prineville /Crook County, 3 miles southwest of Prineville, Oregon, 3,251 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 11/29, is 5,405 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 129 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 10,400 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA S39
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Prineville /Crook County
- Elevation
- 3,251 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- weekends, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm; Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 16:30
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Klamath Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 5,405 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 16/34 | 3,536 × 60 ft | Asphalt, poor | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: trees 25 ft high 562 ft from the end
- Runway 29: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| S39 and aWOS-3PT | 118.325 | |
| Redmond and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.15 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 541-447-4060.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 10,400, 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.
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 Prineville from the FAA register
74 aircraft are registered to owners in Prineville, Oregon: 58 piston singles, 5 business jets, 3 helicopters, 2 piston twins, 2 gliders. 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 Oregon.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 17 since 1982, 4 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 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 11/29; PAPI runway 29 and low-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour card lock SELF-SVC fuel available.
- Nmrs areas of unsealed longl and transverse cracking thrut full length.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Calm wind 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.