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Tacoma Narrows Airport is a county-owned, public-use
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located west of the
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of Tacoma, a city in
Pierce County, Washington Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 921,130, up from 795,225 in 2010, making it the second-most populous county in Washington, behind King County, and the 60th-most populou ...
,
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. It is situated south of
Gig Harbor, Washington Gig Harbor is the name of both a bay on Puget Sound and a city on its shore in Pierce County, Washington,. The population was 12,029 at the 2020 census. Gig Harbor is one of several cities and towns that claim to be "the gateway to the Olympi ...
, one mile southwest of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The airport was owned by the city of Tacoma until 2008, when it was purchased by Pierce County. It is included in the
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(FAA)
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for 2019–2023, in which it is
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as a local
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facility. There is no commercial
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at this airport, the closest airport with commercial
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service is
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport Seattle–Tacoma International Airport , branded as SEA Airport and also referred to as Sea–Tac (), is the primary commercial airport serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is in the city of SeaTac, which ...
, about to the northeast.


Facilities and aircraft

Tacoma Narrows Airport covers an area of 644
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s (261 ha) at an
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of 295 feet (90 m) above
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. It has one
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designated 17/35 with an
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surface measuring 5,002 by 100 feet (1,525 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2016, the airport had 53,276 aircraft operations, an average of 146 per day: 97%
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, 2%
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, and 1%
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. In August 2019, there were 64 aircraft based at this airport: 60 single-
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and 4 multi-engine.


Cargo airlines


Commercial airlines

Tacoma Narrows Airport is not served by any scheduled commercial carriers. Currently PerryCook Flight Services provides non-scheduled commercial air taxi charter service from TIW. During the 1960s it was served by
West Coast Airlines West Coast Airlines was an airline (then called a "local service" airline as defined by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) linking small cities in the Pacific Northwest with larger cities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Montana, California ...
. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was served by
Hughes Airwest Hughes Airwest was a regional airline in the western United States, backed by Howard Hughes' Summa Corporation. Its original name in 1968 was Air West and the air carrier was owned by Nick Bez. Hughes Airwest flew routes in the wes ...
. An excerpt from the July 1, 1972, timetable shows nonstop routes to
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and Olympia—the latter continuing on to Hoquiam/
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, Astoria, and
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.


General aviation

*FBOs: ** Narrows Aviation Air Center ** Pavco Flight Center *Aircraft charter: ** Clay Lacy Aviation ** PerryCook Flight Services


References


External links


Tacoma Narrows Airport
at Pierce County website

at Washington State DOT website
Aerial image as of June 1990
from
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