KORS is the ICAO code for Orcas Island Airport (IATA ESD), located in Eastsound, WA.
Orcas Island Airport (KORS) is a medium airport in Eastsound, WA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KORS or IATA code ESD. It sits in North America.
Orcas Island 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 2,901 ft (884 m), a constrained-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the King Air, PC-12, and other short-field turboprops. In practice this restricts most jet operations; turboprops and short-field specialists only.
Orcas Island Airport sits near sea level at 31 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 1 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at KORS across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KORS 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.