FAA Northwest Mountain Region

About FAA Northwest Mountain

The Northwest Mountain Region spans from the Pacific Coast to the high plains, with a portfolio that includes Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City and Denver alongside hundreds of small mountain airports critical for wildfire response and rural air access. The FAA assigns each airport in the United States to one of nine regions; this region handles airport certification, safety inspections, federal-grant coordination, and overall coordination with the air-traffic-control facilities physically inside its territory.

For travelers, the most useful thing to know about a region is which of its airports is the closest large_airport for the trip you are planning, and which secondary or regional airports could spare you a longer drive to the major airport. The featured airports below cover the largest gateways inside the Northwest Mountain Region, and the state list below that gives you a way to drill into every public-use airport the region covers.

States & territories in the Northwest Mountain region

Featured airports inside the Northwest Mountain region

Region totals