King County International Airport/Boeing Field often serves as the nerve center that connects the local aviation community to different corners of the state. For our users who travel to and from the Kitsap Peninsula, here’s a heads up that Bremerton National Airport will temporarily close its runway Sept. 18-29. The airport – located at 8850…
With any fire emergency, firefighters are first to rush to the scene. The No. 1 tool they need is water to extinguish the flames – and at the airport they need plenty of it. That’s why last month at King County International Airport/Boeing Field, King County Sheriff’s Office Aircraft Rescue Firefighting (ARFF) unit conducted water-supply…
This week, King County International Airport/Boeing Field helped welcome 200 cats and 100 dogs from Texas who were displaced by Hurricane Harvey. The pets were flown from Texas to Seattle, with the hopes that they’ll find homes with new, loving owners here in the Northwest. The effort was led by Seattle Humane, PAWS and Wings…
Earth’s magnetic field is-a-changing, and as a result – for the first time in about 50 years – so are the runway numbers at King County International Airport/Boeing Field. On Thursday, Aug. 17, the Federal Aviation Administration-assigned numbers for BFI’s main and utility runways – which help direct take-offs and landings – will officially change:…
We want to offer a hearty “congratulations!” to Signature Flight Support for its new facility at King County International Airport/Boeing Field. Although the Orlando, Fla.-based company has operated out of its $11.5 million, 6,250-square-foot executive terminal since the beginning of this year, officials with one of the Airport’s largest Fixed-Base Operators (FBO’s) ceremoniously cut the…
This is a reminder to our aviation community that the Federal Aviation Administration has placed a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) on King County International Airport/Boeing Field’s airspace. The reason for the TFR is to make sure everyone is safe for this weekend’s Boeing Seafair Air Show at Genesee Park. BFI is serving as the nerve…
Seafair Weekend arrives Aug. 4-6, and with it will come the annual sun-soaked showcase of hydroplanes, pirates and aerial displays headlined by the United States Navy’s Flight Demonstration Team, the Blue Angels. For us here at King County International Airport/Boeing Field, Seattle’s annual summer festival means helping the globally renowned Boeing Seafair Air Show at…
It’s not every day we welcome an airplane-full of four-legged friends. But when those dogs and cats touch down to eventually find new homes in the Northwest, it makes us feel especially warm and fuzzy. On June 8, nearly 100 at-risk dogs and cats from overcrowded shelters in the Dallas area arrived at King County International Airport/Boeing…
Notice more corporate jets than usual last month on the airside of King County International Airport/Boeing Field? Your eyes weren’t deceiving you. The Airport played a big role in delivering many of the world’s top business leaders who converged on the Northwest for the annual Microsoft CEO Summit. We welcomed nearly 100 business and executive…
If a traffic collision on Interstate 5 caused extensive damage and shut down both directions of the freeway for days, how would the Puget Sound region keep people moving? On Tuesday, May 16, at King County International Airport/Boeing Field, representatives from local, state and federal stakeholder agencies participated in an exercise intended to address that…
So what’s going on with the Master Plan Update for King County International Airport/Boeing Field? Here are a few updates: What we’ve been up to The airport planning team collected feedback on a set of land use options from the Airport Working Group (AWG) in January. This feedback, in addition to comments received from community…
The Boeing Company is scheduled to conduct a flight test of its new KC-46 Pegasus refueling aircraft Friday night at King County International Airport/Boeing Field. The KC-46, accompanied by a Navy F-18 jet, is scheduled to depart at 6 p.m. Both aircraft are scheduled to return at approximately 11 p.m. This flight test is weather-dependent and…
For decades, Luther Dean Bonner’s act of bravery had been largely forgotten. But the fallen Seattle Firefighter is now the namesake of the new rescue and fire station at King County International Airport/Boeing Field, and his story will be memorialized for decades to come. During a ceremony this week at the Airport, King County dedicated…
A group of budding aviation students from the San Juan Islands recently turned King County International Airport/Boeing Field into a giant classroom. On March 12, the seven grinning students from an introductory aviation class at Friday Harbor High visited the Airport in one of the coolest field trips ever. The students were joined by their…
Did you know that when planes bound for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport can’t land for any number of reasons, King County International Airport/Boeing Field comes to the rescue as the official Plan B? Ok, maybe our efforts aren’t that heroic, but we do play a role in helping the occasional commercial airplane safely reach our neighboring…
