KRIL is the ICAO code for Garfield County Regional Airport (IATA RIL), located in Rifle, CO.
Garfield County Regional Airport (KRIL) is a medium airport in Rifle, CO. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KRIL or IATA code RIL. It sits in North America.
Garfield County Regional Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 7,000-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.
The longest runway measures 7,000 ft (2,134 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.
Garfield County Regional Airport sits at 5,548 ft above sea level. Hot-and-high conditions can meaningfully reduce takeoff performance in summer — planners should factor density altitude into payload and fuel decisions.
Local operations run on America/Denver. 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 32 departing and 70 arriving private-jet legs at KRIL across the next six months of operator inventory. 7 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KRIL 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.