Southwest Washington Regional Airport

Southwest Washington Regional Airport (KKLS) is a medium airport in Kelso, WA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KKLS or IATA code KLS. It sits in North America.

Southwest Washington Regional Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 4,391-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 4,391 ft (1,338 m), a light-jet-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Phenom 300, Citation CJ4, and Learjet 75. In practice this limits operations to light jets, turboprops, and short-field-capable aircraft.

Southwest Washington Regional Airport sits near sea level at 20 ft.

Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 180 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at KKLS across the next six months of operator inventory. 2 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KKLS are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Southwest Washington Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southeast of the central business district of Kelso, in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. The airport was renamed in 2009, prior to which it was known as the Kelso-Longview Regional Airport, or Molt Taylor Field, named after flying car designer Moulton Taylor.