Roche Harbor Seaplane Base
WA03 · Roche Harbor, Washington · San Juan County · map
Roche Harbor Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base in Roche Harbor, Washington, 0 feet above sea level. It has 2 water landing areas.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA WA03
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 0 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 21E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1965
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 5,000 × 1,000 ft | Water | |
| 12/30 | 2,550 × 500 ft | Water |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 128.25 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Victoria International (11 nm west), Anacortes Airport (21 nm east), Bellingham International (27 nm northeast), Delaurentis Airport (29 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Friday Harbor Airport (7 nm southeast), Victoria International (11 nm west), Orcas Island Airport (12 nm northeast), Anacortes Airport (21 nm east).
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
- Boats in landing areas and in docking area.
- VFR operations only.
- VFR operations only.
- VFR operations only.
- VFR operations only.
- Airport changed to pri use per nra case asn: 2026-ANM-517-NRA.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Roche Harbor from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Roche Harbor, WA as the owner's town.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- San Juan Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Friday Harbor, 9 miles away San Juan Airlines operates scheduled passenger flights and charter flights in the San Juan Islands region of Washington State, with daily service to five locations including Friday Harbor and Orcas Island.
- Westwind Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Friday Harbor, 9 miles away
- Airhawks Flying Club 1 aircraft · Eastsound, 13 miles away Airhawks is a member-owned 501(c)(3) flying club on Orcas Island, Washington, dedicated to strengthening aviation in the San Juan Islands.
Companies in the same town as this seaplane base, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base
Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Washington 2,713 since 1982 · 361 in the last ten years
- San Juan Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Westwind Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Airhawks Flying Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Washington 130 landing places
- Washington 10,662 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/WA03.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 November 9, 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.