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Orcas Island Airport

ICAO KORS48.7082°N 122.9100°W35 ft / 11 mMedium airport
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Orcas Island Airport (IATA: ESD, ICAO: KORS) is a medium airport in Eastsound, Washington, United States. It opened in Nov 1945. It has one runway, 2,901 ft (884 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 17 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1945–1945
NOV 1945
OpenedOrcas Island Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
16/34180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH2,901 ft884 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
10K
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Routes

6 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsSan Juan Airlines 4Kenmore Air 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ESD. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Orcas Island Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers17K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,506of 3,974 · #593 North America · #410 USLongest runway2,901 ft884 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=17,320of 29,823 · =7,252 North America · =6,124 USElevation35 ft11 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,118of 43,341 · =18,162 North America · =14,955 USAgeOpened 19452026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,524of 15,079 · =1,492 North America · =1,440 USRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 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

3 channels
CTAF128.250
AWOS135.425
WHIDBEY APP/DEP118.200