Westerly State Airport

Westerly State Airport (KWST) is a medium airport in Westerly, RI. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KWST or IATA code WST. It sits in North America.

Westerly State 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 4,010 ft (1,222 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.

Westerly State Airport sits near sea level at 81 ft.

Local operations run on America/New_York. 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 390 departing and 255 arriving private-jet legs at KWST across the next six months of operator inventory. 6 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KWST 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.

Westerly State Airport is a public use airport in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. It serves the town of Westerly and is located 2 nmi southeast of its central business district. It is primarily a general aviation airport, but there is also scheduled airline service to Block Island provided by New England Airlines.