KCWF Chennault International Airport
Lake Charles, LA · 4 miles E of LAKE CHARLES, LA
Public
Towered
Publicly-owned
ICAO KCWF
Location & operations
- Elevation
- 16.5 ft
- Coordinates
- 30-12-38.1130N 093-08-35.4810W
- Lat / Long
- 30.2105869, -93.1431892
- Mag. variation
- 00E (2025)
- Time zone
- UTC -5 (UTC -6 during Standard Time)
- Activated
- 01/1964
- ARTCC
- HOUSTON CENTER
- FSS
- DE RIDDER FLIGHT SERVICE STATION
- NOTAMs facility
- CWF (NOTAM-D service available)
- Attendance
- 0600-2200 AFT HRS CALL 337-433-7766.
- Pattern altitude
- 1499.5 ft. MSL
- Wind indicator
- lighted
- Segmented circle
- yes
- Beacon
- white-green (lighted land airport) Operates sunset to sunrise.
- Lights
- WHEN ATCT CLSD ACTVT MALSR RWY 15; REIL RWY 33; PAPI RWY 15 & 33; HIRL RWY 15/33 - CTAF.
- International operations
- customs landing rights airport
Airport diagram FAA official
Range from KCWF
Runways
Longest 10702 ft
Tap a runway to see its details.
- Dimensions
- 10702 x 200 ft. / 3262 x 61 m
- Surface
- concrete, in fair condition
- Edge lights
- high intensity
- Weight bearing
- Single wheel 120.0
Runway 15
- Heading
- 154
- VGSI / PAPI
- 4-light PAPI on left (3.00 degrees glide path)
- Instrument approach
- ILS
- Approach lights
- MALSR: 1,400 foot medium intensity approach lighting system with runway alignment indicator lights
- Declared distances
- TORA:10702 TODA:10702 ASDA:10702 LDA:10702
- Markings
- precision, in fair condition
- Touchdown point
- yes, no lights
- REIL
- no
- Traffic pattern
- left
- Threshold elevation
- 14.4 ft.
Runway 33
- Heading
- 334
- VGSI / PAPI
- 4-light PAPI on left (3.00 degrees glide path)
- Declared distances
- TORA:10702 TODA:10702 ASDA:10702 LDA:10702
- Markings
- nonprecision, in fair condition
- Touchdown point
- yes, no lights
- REIL
- yes
- Traffic pattern
- right
- Threshold elevation
- 16.3 ft.
Terminal procedures FAA d-TPP · cycle 2608 · through 0901Z 09/03/26
Departures — DP / ODP 3
Approaches — IAP 3
Arrivals — STAR 0
None published.
Procedure charts published by the FAA (public domain). Confirm the current cycle before flight.
Communications
- Control Tower
- yes
- Ctaf
- 124.2
- Unicom
- 122.95
- Atis
- 120.0
- Wx Awos-3
- 120.0 (337-214-2134)
- Chennault Ground
- 121.65 275.8 [0600-2200]
- Chennault Tower
- 124.2 290.4 [0600-2200]
- Lake Charles Approach
- 119.8
- Lake Charles Departure
- 119.8
- Approach Lights
- MALSR: 1,400 foot medium intensity approach lighting system with runway alignment indicator lights
- Instrument Approach
- ILS
Services
- Fuel available
- 100LL JET-A1+ 100LL:FOR FUEL CALL 337-436-4877. SELF SVC AVBL 24 HRS WITH CREDIT CARD.
- Parking
- hangars and tiedowns
- Bottled oxygen
- LOW
- Bulk oxygen
- NONE
Airport data aggregated from public FAA/AirNav sources for reference only — always consult official charts and NOTAMs for flight planning.