Mercer Ranch Airport
WA00 · Alderdale, Washington · Klickitat County · map
Mercer Ranch Airport is a private airport, 2 miles northeast of Alderdale, Washington, 780 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 2,200 feet of gravel.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA WA00
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 780 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 18E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 2000
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 2,200 × 40 ft | Gravel | Low-intensity lights |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Hermiston Municipal (27 nm east), Richland Airport (35 nm northeast), Tri-Cities Airport (39 nm northeast), Eastern Oregon Regional AT Pendleton (46 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Prosser Airport (19 nm north), Sunnyside Municipal (26 nm north), Hermiston Municipal (27 nm east), Lexington Airport (28 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Washington · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Abrupt dropoffs on each end of runway 05/23.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Alderdale from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Alderdale, WA as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Washington 2,709 since 1982 · 358 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Washington 130 landing places
- Washington 10,572 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/WA00.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.