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…
We at the Airport recently got to share how we play a vital role in connecting the region to the rest of the world at the Northwest’s premiere aviation conference. King County International Airport/Boeing Field shared the spotlight at the Northwest Aviation Conference & Trade Show, Feb. 25-26 at the Washington State Fair and Events…
If you’ve ever been stuck on a plane longer than you wanted, there’s some R&D that could bring relief on the horizon: a new technology being developed by NASA (THE NASA) that could help reduce airline delays. And it was just tested at King County International/Boeing Field. No, it doesn’t involve launching passengers into orbit,…
If NASA’s newest technology to increase airline efficiency and reduce air traffic delays eventually takes flight, remember that King County International Airport/Boeing Field played a small role in helping it go mainstream. How? By hosting one of the coolest games of “Follow the Leader” we’ve ever seen. NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is in the…
We’re a month into 2017, and there’s already plenty of news coming out of our work on our Master Plan Update. We’ve been meeting with our neighbors, brainstorming about uses at the Airport and prepping for the next community briefing Feb. 7 in Tukwila. Here’s the full roundup of things we’re working on: Airport…
King County International Airport/Boeing Field has immediately addressed issues that surfaced during a recent Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) Division of Safety and Health inspection of its maintenance building – an inspection that concluded the risk of exposure to asbestos in the employee-only facility is very low. The inspection arose from an…
This is an important and busy year for the future of King County International Airport/Boeing Field (KCIA). As we told you earlier, KCIA is in the process of its Master Plan Update, which will map out how one of the busiest primary non-hub airports in the nation should be used and developed. What’s a master plan? It’s…
Hours after clinching its first MLS Cup, Seattle Sounders FC returned to the Northwest on Sunday afternoon, greeted by a sea of blue-and-rave-green-clad fans at King County International Airport/Boeing Field. Nearly 1,000 diehard Sounder faithful squeezed into the terminal’s parking lot area and waited with anticipation and excitement in the cold for the team’s return…
