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The airport has served as Seattle's official weather recording location since 1945. [83] As of April 2023, Sea-Tac has over 23,000 total workers, including 400 to 500 customs agents and 850 TSA security officers. The airport has 3,800 cameras that are monitored from a control center staffed by Port of Seattle Airport Operations personnel.
It has one 5,000-by-500-foot (1,520 by 150 m) seaplane landing area designated runway 16/34, which runs from Gas Works Park to the north to Lake Union Park in the south. [1] [2] A different seaplane base on the same lake, Seattle Seaplanes SPB (FAA LID: 0W0), is assigned runway 18/36 that instead goes diagonally through the lake. [3]
Kenmore Air Harbor [2] (IATA: KEH, FAA LID: S60) is a public-use seaplane base at the northern end of Lake Washington and 1 nmi (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of the central business district of Kenmore, Washington, U.S. [1] [2] It primarily serves western Washington and parts of southwestern British Columbia.
[23] [24] Sound Transit selected their preferred route for the light rail line in 1999, choosing to serve the Port of Seattle's planned North End Airport Terminal, a multi-modal facility with a direct connection to the airport's Satellite Transit System, and a potential station at South 184th Street to serve the city center. [25] [26] [27]
A 124-acre (50 ha) business park was created on the west side of the airport in 2002 and includes offices, hangars, and light manufacturing. [11] In 2019, the city began lobbying for a 677-foot (206 m) runway extension to support larger airplanes and anticipated growth.
In 1951, Washington State bought out PSNC and took over the ferry system. The state paid $500,000 for the ferry terminal at Colman Dock. [6] Work on the present terminal began a decade later; there have been several reconfigurations and modernizations since. [3] The very month that the state ferry terminal opened, it was the subject of another ...
During World War II, Grove taught flying in California and returned to Clark County, Washington after the war. The Port of Camas-Washougal bought the airstrip from him in 1961 and in 1984, the Port Commission voted to name the field in his honor. Grove died in 1993. [3] A fire on October 6, 2014, did $1 million in damage to 10 hangars at the ...
Fishermen's Terminal is a dock opened in 1914 and operated by the Port of Seattle as the home port for Seattle's commercial fishing fleet, and, since 2002, non-commercial pleasure craft. The Terminal is on Salmon Bay in the Interbay neighborhood, east of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and immediately west of the Ballard Bridge. Fisherman's Terminal