Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton

Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton (KPDT) is a medium airport in Pendleton, OR. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KPDT or IATA code PDT. It sits in North America.

Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 6,301 ft (1,921 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.

Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton lies at 1,497 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 147 departing and 45 arriving private-jet legs at KPDT across the next six months of operator inventory. 9 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KPDT 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.

Eastern Oregon Regional Airport is a public airport three miles northwest of Pendleton, in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Commercial service is provided by Boutique Air to Portland, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.