Waterville Regional
WVL · KWVL · Waterville, Maine · Kennebec County · map
Waterville Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Waterville, 2 miles southwest of Waterville, Maine, 333 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 5,500 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 20 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 16,200 takeoffs and landings a year. About 71 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KWVL · observed 6:56 pm EDT (22:56 UTC), 35 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west-northwest (290°) at 12 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 48°F (9°C), dew point 34°F (1°C)
- Altimeter 29.91 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KWVL 062256Z AUTO 29012KT 10SM CLR 09/01 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP133 T00890011
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA WVL · ICAO KWVL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Waterville
- Elevation
- 333 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to October, every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; November to April, every day, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Montreal sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 18W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,500 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 2,301 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent |
- Runway 05: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF)
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 14: trees 15 ft high 402 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 124.6 | |
| Approach and departure | 128.35 | |
| Wvl and aWOS-3PT | 118.375 | |
| Bangor and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.25 | |
| Waterboro and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.2 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 207-877-0519.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 16,200, 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 Waterville from the FAA register
18 aircraft are registered to owners in Waterville, Maine: 14 piston singles, 4 piston twins. 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 Maine.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 since 1982, 0 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.
- Activate malsf runway 05; runway end identifier lights runway 23; high-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self serve.
- Aircraft operations on paved area only.
- Avoid hospital 1 MI north.
- Aircraft DE-ICING available.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.