Tacoma Narrows Airport

Tacoma Narrows Airport (KTIW) is a medium airport in Tacoma, WA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KTIW or IATA code TIW. It sits in North America.

Tacoma Narrows Airport 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 5,002 ft (1,525 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.

Tacoma Narrows Airport sits near sea level at 294 ft.

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 232 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at KTIW across the next six months of operator inventory. 3 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KTIW 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.

Tacoma Narrows Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located 5 mi (8.0 km) west of the central business district of Tacoma, a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. It is situated south of Gig Harbor, Washington, one mile southwest of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The airport was owned by the city of Tacoma until 2008, when it was purchased by Pierce County.