Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport
Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport
Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (IATA: RKS, ICAO: KRKS, FAA LID: RKS) is eight miles east of Rock Springs, in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. It is operated by the Rock Springs-Sweetwater County Joint Powers Airport Board, with a total of five members, two appointed by the City of Rock Springs and three appointed by Sweetwater County. The airport has twice-daily United Express flights to Denver International Airport. Sweetwater Aviation is the fixed-base operator, providing all general aviation services on the field. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019-2023 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
Location
41.594°N, 109.065°O · 2.062 m s. n. m. (6.764 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication
Approach
Common traffic (CTAF)
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 17 aircraft documented between 2008 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Aviationism · CC BY-SA 4.0 · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (RKS). Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RKS
MLA
“Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (RKS).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RKS. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (RKS).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RKS.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (RKS). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RKS (Accessed: 25 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (RKS)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
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howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RKS}},
urldate = {2026-10-25},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-25}
}Wikipedia
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