Comments for Washington, United States

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Comments 1 to 50 of 50 for Washington, United States (visit the main airport page to leave a new comment):

Sat, 28 Jan 2012

Landed here to look at a Cessna 150. Nice clean airport. No courtesy car, not much for dining. Frequent skydiving. Great pilot lounge.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012

Stayed the night. Used Jensen's courtesy car. Great FBO!

Just a quick stop to say I landed here.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011

Don't screw up! The Cemetery is right up against 07. :)

A bit rough but not a problem. If the wind is up, pretty choppy around the trees.

Mon, 03 Oct 2011

Corporate air is just great. Fueling is fast and the courtesy car is almost always there. I'll second the Kitty Hawk Cafe, good food and good view of the runway.

The tarmac is not great, there are certainly a few rough spots, but the fuel is the cheapest in the area and they have MoGas. There is a restroom and it is a great place to take new pilots to learn the illusions of narrow runways and runways with serious slope.

The Spruce Goose is on the field and has great diner food. Aviation theme is fun, service is fast and the view of the planes is great.

Sun, 25 Sep 2011

Very nice small airport. Close easy walk to town. Nice shops and restaurants. Try the restaurant down by the ferry dock, my daughter says its great.

My first grass strip landing! Bumpy but I enjoyed it so much, I did it three more times! Nothing here but grass. You should get permission before you land.

Decent small airport. No services on field. Great place to land and camp. State park is down the hill on the North end of field. Call Tiffany's Resort (about six miles around the lake). They will come get you. They have cabins and boats. Great fishing dock, nice trout, I have fished here for years. They also run the resort in the winter months for hunters. http://tiffanysresort.com/

I stopped, I looked and I left. Interesting approach to the field is the most exciting thing about Tonasket airport. Long ways to town.

Three mile bike ride to town. Long steep hill just outside of town. Not much here.

Great college town, to far to walk. Great FBO on field.

Very clean tidy airport. The pilots lounge is maintained wonderfully. There is even pop, goodies and cookies in the frig. Camp on the grass and walk on the beach. If the water level is low, don't let the mosquito's pack you off.

A bit of a walk to town but a great small airport.

Great small airport. The pilot lounge is great. TV, couch, recliner microwave etc. Sleep here if you need to or borrow the ports bicycles and get some exercise on the short (1 mile) trip to town. Definitely eat at the Coyote Pass Cafe in town. I told the patron that her Starbucks quality mocha was way under priced and she told me she doesn't run the restaurant to make a killing she just loves to serve people. I believe it, the food was first class! Be sure to stop by the museum. The down home very pleasant ladies that run this place will happily and very pleasantly tell you a story about each of the museums artifacts. Be sure to ask them to darken the room with all the rocks and also be sure to check out the meteorite. I plan to return. I pitched a tent on the grass by the fair grounds and slept just fine. No fear in this wonderful small town.

Watch the wind here, It blows often. Great strip, close to town (1 mile to center of town). Stop at Merino's Seafood in town and load up on the best canned tuna you will ever eat. You will never eat a can of Chicken of the Sea again! www.merinoseafoods.com Small family owned business. They use only pole caught tuna. You won't be disappointed! I fly there once a year to just for their canned tuna.

Watch for the "marked" power lines at the North end of field. Not an issue, just be aware. Need permission from a property owner to land. Just land and ask, that's what I did. :)

Supposedly need permission to land but all the numbers associated with this field have been disconnected. Land and ask an owner on the field, I'm sure you won't have a problem. No near by towns.

The airport that got left behind. I landed here back in 1979 and I believe nothing has been repaired since. The runway surface then was great! Today its a crumbling poor example of a runway. Very sad.

No amenities. Great touch and go light mountain practice.

If you need a great breakfast or lunch stop by the Kitty Hawk Cafe. Closes at 3pm, not open Sunday. No hotels or motels nearby. Need repairs, see Lin @ Vertex Aviation (next to the Skagit Regional offices or main terminal). He and one hired mechanic (Lou) run the repair shop. They both have worked on my plane and I'm still going there. :) If you like spendy red carpet treatment then go to Corporate Air.

Wed, 07 Sep 2011

Great out of the way overbuilt airport. Hardly ever used but first class home port.

Mon, 13 Jun 2011

There are two tower frequencies that should be noted. The east runway (31R/13L) is on 118.3. This is the frequency that should be used when departing this runway, or arriving from 0 to 179 degrees magnetic. The The west runway (31L/13R) is on 120.6. This is the frequency that should be used when departing this runway, or arriving from 180 to 359 degrees magnetic.

Mon, 04 Apr 2011

Mon, 04 Apr 2011
Anonymous flyer on Randle-Kiona Airpark view thread | reply
 

The grass strip at Randle-Kiona Airpark is lovely. The folks who live there must be proud of their hard work at making their landing strip so nice.

Thu, 04 Nov 2010

Thu, 04 Nov 2010
 

Location of the Assembly point of Boeing

Mon, 30 Aug 2010

Very nice people. They took very good care of us. We stayed a week and didn't even charge us a tie down fee. We will be back

Mon, 21 Jun 2010

Mon, 21 Jun 2010
Anonymous flyer on Lynden Airport view thread | reply
 

If you've let yourself get sloppy and cocky then Lynden will fix that! Great little airport but it does require that you make a stable approach at the proper airspeed. I take students in there about once a week if I see them getting too used to the 6700 feet at Bellingham.

Sun, 03 Jan 2010

Sun, 03 Jan 2010
Anonymous flyer on Harvey Field view thread | reply
 

The new runway numbers are 33 and 15.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009

The FAA uses '32WA' for Whitestone Airport, Tonasket, Washington

The FAA uses Z14 for Tripod Airport, Aleknagik, AK

Tue, 15 Dec 2009

The FAA uses 'WA63' for Pleasant Farm Airport, Washougal, WA

Fri, 06 Nov 2009

I confirmed online and changed the status -- thanks.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009
 

Note that Blaine airport closed on Dec 31, 2008

Sat, 29 Aug 2009

State campground on both sides and a road passes close by. Not as quiet as it looks; you can camp on the field but there are walking trails crisscrossing the runway between the campgrounds and a steady stream of mountain bikers cross the runway. Despite being a state campground, there are no facilities, no restaurants, no stores close by.

When I was there in Aug 2009, there was a Forest Service firefighting team with two helicopters and a fuel truck operating from the airstrip. Approach from the South, along the lake. Runway rises to the North, then ends abruptly. There was a Warrior in the overrun with wiped landing gear, he floated and touched down late, ground-looping just before the steep drop-off at the North end.

Tue, 28 Jul 2009

RUNWAY23---110.30---228ยบ

Tue, 14 Jul 2009

Business Name: A. J. Eisenberg Airport, LLC

Business Address: 417 Second Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119

Business Phone: 866-429-2132

Airport Name: A. J. Eisenberg Airport

Airport Address: 1140 Monroe Landing Rd, Oak Harbor, WA 98277

Airport Manager: Pete Morgan

Airport Manager Phone: 360-929-6802

Airport selling fuel: 100LL, 92 octane ethanol free mogas

Thu, 07 May 2009

Thu, 07 May 2009
Anonymous flyer on Enumclaw Airport view thread | reply
 

IF wind permits, land to east and take off to west. Avoid fling over school.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009

Although those big "X" marks on the runway might be a good clue.

The FAA calls this a heliport, even though it has a 1600 ft long runway.

Sun, 07 Dec 2008

the best airport ever!

Mon, 08 Sep 2008

Mon, 08 Sep 2008
 

An airport with a neat museum and a lot of history. Visited here for the West Coast Cherokee Pilot's Assoc. Fly-In. Great location, just review the chart carefully and be prepared to follow Portland's instructions, especially if not granted access to Class C airspace.

Tue, 19 Aug 2008

But the two records also list different owners. I suppose the only way this is going to be settled is for somebody to phone both owners.

I think that's why the FAA hasn't spotted the duplication. From the sat view, it's clear that they're the same airport, with the runway described differently -- there's not room for a second strip on the same island.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008

Oh, and the two records have different runways, one is 16/34 1500x75 and the other is "NW/SE" 1500x100.

Interestingly enough, they aren't *exactly* duplicates, at least not after I've done processing them into my navaid.com database. The latitude, longitudes and elevations are slightly different.

I have WA58 is 48.6525, -122.584166667, elev 5 and WA93 is 48.652606388889, -122.57461722, elev 8. I think that makes them 1.8nm apart according to http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm

The FAA has a duplicate entry in their database, listing this airport as both WA58 and WA93.

Sun, 27 Jan 2008

From 1964 until it closed in 2006, this airport was home to the Northwest Antique Airplane Club and the annual Evergreen fly-in. It was sold in 2006, but as of early 2008, had not yet been redeveloped.

Tue, 23 Oct 2007

Tue, 23 Oct 2007
Anonymous flyer on Shady Acres Airport view thread | reply
 

it has not changed since 1976 stilla charming but short field

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