Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport

ICAO KLWS46.3745°N 117.0150°W1,442 ft / 440 mMedium 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 · 1944–1944

JUL 1944

OpenedLewiston Nez Perce County Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

08/26099° / 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

2015–2025

152K

154K

117K

81K

32K

62K

84K

76K

113K

79K

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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

SEASeattle–Tacoma International AirportUnited States · Delta Connection419 km260 mi SLCSalt Lake City International AirportUnited States · Delta Connection741 km460 mi

Cargo2

GEGSpokane International AirportUnited States · FedEx Express144 km89 mi BFIKing County International Airport - Boeing FieldUnited States · Ameriflight421 km262 mi

Most 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 · country

Passengers79K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,905of 3,974 · #426 North America · #288 US Longest runway6,511 ft1,985 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#4,049of 29,823 · #986 North America · #746 US Elevation1,442 ft440 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#12,512of 43,341 · #5,391 North America · #4,119 US AgeOpened 19442026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,300of 15,079 · =1,299 North America · =1,249 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US

Scale: 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 channels

ASOSASOS135.575

CNTRSEATTLE CNTR123.950

CTAFCTAF119.400

GNDGND121.900

RDOBOISE RDO122.350

TWRTWR119.400

UNICUNICOM122.950