Kenmore Air Harbor

This article is about the seaplane base on Lake Washington in Seattle. For the seaplane base on Lake Union in Seattle (about 16 miles west, FAA: W55), see Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base.

Kenmore Air Harbor
IATA: KEH – ICAO: none – FAA LID: S60
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Gregg Munro
Serves	Kenmore, Washington
Location	Lake Washington
Elevation AMSL	14 ft / 4 m
Coordinates
Website	www.KenmoreAir.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 16/34 10,000 3,048 Water 18/36 3,000 914 Water
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 48,300 Based aircraft 60
Source: FAA, WSDOT

Kenmore Air Harbor (IATA: KEH, FAA LID: S60) is a public-use seaplane base located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Kenmore, a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is situated on the northern end of Lake Washington and primarily serves western Washington along with parts of southwestern British Columbia. It is primarily served by Kenmore Air, a regional seaplane operator.

History

Kenmore Air was founded in 1946 by three high school friends, reunited after World War II. With one airplane, and a single hangar near a swamp at the North end of Lake Washington (Seattle), Bob Munro, Reg Collins, and Jack Mines gave birth to what was to become the largest and most respected seaplane airline in the world. In 2003 Kenmore Air started an all weather wheel plane passenger and cargo service (Kenmore Air Express) based out of the Boeing Field airport. This new services adds reliable all weather day/night flights to several Puget Sound destinations and also Campbell River BC.

Facilities and aircraft

Kenmore Air Harbor covers an area of 5 acres (2.0 ha) at an elevation of 14 feet (4 m) above mean sea level. It has two seaplane landing areas: 16/34 is 10,000 by 1,000 feet (3,048 x 305 m) and 18/36 is 3,000 by 1,000 feet (914 x 305 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 48,300 aircraft operations, an average of 132 per day: 83% air taxi and 17% general aviation. At that time there were 60 single-engine aircraft based at this airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines

Destinations

Kenmore Air

Seattle-Lake Union Seasonal: Baker Island-Blackfish Lodge, Berry Island-Farewell Harbour, Blind Channel, Bliss Landing, Minstrel Island-Bones Bay Lodge, Campbell River-Dolphins Resort, Campbell River-Tyee Spit, Cordero Channel-Cordero Lodge, Cordero Channel-Shoal Bay, Cortes Island-Cortes Bay/Government Dock, Cortes Island-Cortes Bay/Seattle Yacht Club, Cortes Island-Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island-Mansons Landing, Dent Island-Dent Island Lodge, Desolation Sound-Prideaux Haven, East Cracroft Island-Lagoon Cove, Egmont, Egmont-West Coast Wilderness Lodge, Garden Bay-Pender Harbour/Fisherman's Resort, Gilford Island-Pierre's Echo Bay, Hanson Island-Pacific Outback Resort, Malcolm Island-Sund's Lodge, Mink Island, Morgan's Landing, Nanaimo-Harbour, Nimmo Bay, North Broughton Island-Sullivan Bay, North Rendezvous Island-Solstua West, Port Hardy, Port Harvey, Port McNeill, Princess Louisa Inlet-Chatterbox Falls, Princess Louisa Inlet-Malibu Club, Quadra Island-April Point Marina, Quadra Island-April Point Resort, Refuge Cove, Shawl Bay-Frank's Fishing Lodge, Sonora Island, Steep Island, Stuart Island-Big Bay, Stuart Island-Nanook Lodge, Swanson Island-Laton's Lodge

In the arts

Kenmore Air Harbor is the base for the "San Juan Island Run" mission supplied with Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

External links

• Kenmore Air
• Aerial photo as of 10 July 1990 from USGS The National Map
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for S60
  • AirNav airport information for S60
  • ASN accident history for KEH
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for S60