LWS
Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport

Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport (IATA: LWS, ICAO: KLWS) is a medium airport in Lewiston, Idaho, United States. It opened in Jul 1944. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,511 ft (1,985 m). In 2025 it handled 79 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1944–1944JUL 1944
OpenedLewiston Nez Perce County Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF08/26099° / 279° · LIT
LENGTH6,511 ft1,985 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
12/30132° / 312° · LIT · SLOPE 1.4%
LENGTH5,003 ft1,525 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2015–2025152K
152K
154K
117K
81K
32K
62K
84K
76K
113K
79K
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Routes
4 destinations · 1 countryMost destinationsDelta Connection 2FedEx Express 1Ameriflight 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LWS. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Lewiston–Nez Perce County Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
7 channelsASOSASOS135.575
CNTRSEATTLE CNTR123.950
CTAFCTAF119.400
GNDGND121.900
RDOBOISE RDO122.350
TWRTWR119.400
UNICUNICOM122.950