Lewiston–Nez Perce County Airport
| Lewiston–Nez Perce County Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Terminal in March 2006
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Lewiston & Nez Perce County |
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| Serves | Lewiston-Clarkston metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,442 ft / 440 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°22′28″N 117°00′55″W / 46.37444°N 117.01528°WCoordinates: 46°22′28″N 117°00′55″W / 46.37444°N 117.01528°W | ||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 33,714 |
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| Based aircraft | 145 |
Lewiston–Nez Perce County Airport (IATA: LWS, ICAO: KLWS, FAA LID: LWS) is in Lewiston, Idaho. Owned by the city and Nez Perce County, it is in an elevated area two miles south of downtown.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 64,379 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 62,210 in 2009 and 61,737 in 2010.
Dedicated in 1928, the airport became as a Chamber of Commerce project in 1931, and the original runway was paved in 1942. Jet service arrived in October 1969 after the completion of the 6,500-foot (1,980 m) runway 8/26.
Lewiston was served by West Coast Airlines Fairchild F-27s during the 1960s. West Coast merged with Bonanza Air Lines and Pacific Air Lines to form Air West in 1968 with the San Francisco-based airline being renamed Hughes Airwest in 1970.
Early jet service was flown by Hughes Airwest with Douglas DC-9-10s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s as well as by Cascade Airways operating BAC One-Elevens, supplemented with turboprop aircraft of both airlines. Hughes Airwest merged into Republic Airlines in October 1980, which cut back flights in Idaho and elsewhere in the western U.S. Republic's final flight to Lewiston was in September 1982, and the airline ended its southern Idaho and eastern Washington service shortly after in April 1983. Cascade, based in Spokane, ceased operations in 1986.
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