Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport

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Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport

IATA: PUW - ICAO: KPUW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Pullman Moscow Regional Airport Board
Serves		Pullman, Washington
Elevation AMSL		2,551 ft (777.5 m)
Coordinates		46°44′37.9″N, 117°06′34.5″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	6,731	2,051.6	Asphalt/Grooved

Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport (IATA: PUW, ICAO: KPUW) is a public airport located in Whitman County in the U.S. state of Washington, two miles east of Pullman, Washington and four miles west of Moscow, Idaho. The airport has a single runway.

The airport is the primary air link for both Washington State University in Pullman, Washington and the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Both universities use the airport for jet charters from Frontier Airlines and Allegiant Air for their athletic team travels.

Horizon Air is the only commercial airline serving the airport, flying Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft. Routes are shared by Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport and Pullman through reversing circular routes that continue to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hub in Seattle as well as a direct flight to Boise Air Terminal in Boise, Idaho.

Seattle air traffic control manages commercial traffic for the airport.

The post-security waiting area at PUW.

Interior of main terminal.

The small commercial terminal is one large room, divided between pre- and post-security areas by a single security checkpoint and glass walls. The waiting area occupies all space beyond the checkpoint, but is not commonly used for waiting, as most passengers pass through the security checkpoint immediately before boarding. Both passenger gates are ground-level doors to the tarmac; passengers board via the fold-down aircraft-door stairs, or airstairs (for larger charter aircraft). Gate 1 on the east side of the terminal is used by Horizon Air.

The public airport shares the runway with a fixed base operator, Interstate Aviation, which conducts chartered air service. There are also several hangars for private jet aircraft, most notably those of Edmund Schweitzer, founder of the local Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories company.