Paine Field

Seattle Paine Field International Airport

Snohomish County Airport
Seattle Paine Field International Airport; Snohomish County Airport
	Aerial from southwest; August 2009
	IATA: PAE; ICAO: KPAE; FAA LID: PAE;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Snohomish County
Serves	Seattle metropolitan area
Location	Snohomish County, Washington, United States
Opened	1936
Elevation AMSL	608 ft / 185 m
Coordinates	47°54′22″N 122°16′53″W / 47.90611°N 122.28139°W
Website	www.painefield.com
Maps
	; FAA diagram
Runways
Statistics (2020)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	115,201 (not finished)
Based aircraft	486 (not finished)
Passengers	377,000
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration, BTS

Seattle Paine Field International Airport (IATA: PAE, ICAO: KPAE, FAA LID: PAE), also known as Paine Field and Snohomish County Airport, is a commercial and general aviation airport serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in unincorporated Snohomish County, Washington, between the cities of Mukilteo and Everett, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle. PAE covers 1,315 acres (2.05 sq mi; 5.32 km²) of land.^[1]

The airport was built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration and began commercial service in 1939. It was named for Topliff Olin Paine in 1941, shortly before the Army Air Corps began the occupation of Paine Field for military use. The airport briefly returned to civilian use in the late 1940s, before conversion into an air force base during the Korean War. In 1966, the Boeing Company selected Paine Field for the site of its Everett assembly plant as part of the Boeing 747 program. By the 1970s, the airport had grown into a hub for light aviation and manufacturing, lacking commercial service. The county government sought to begin commercial service at Paine Field as early as the 1980s but was halted by opposition from neighboring cities.^[3]

In March 2019, Paine Field resumed commercial service at a newly constructed terminal.^[4] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.^[5]

^ ^a ^b FAA Airport Form 5010 for PAE PDF, effective September 13, 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference transtats.bts.gov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Riddle, Margaret (August 22, 2007). "Paine Field (Snohomish County)". HistoryLink. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
^ Cite error: The named reference Alaska Postponed was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "NPIAS Report 2023-2027 Appendix A" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. October 6, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2023.

[FAA-1] FAA Airport Form 5010 for PAE PDF, effective September 13, 2019.

[transtats.bts.gov-2] Cite error: The named reference transtats.bts.gov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[HistoryLink-3] Riddle, Margaret (August 22, 2007). "Paine Field (Snohomish County)". HistoryLink. Retrieved August 10, 2017.

[Alaska_Postponed-4] Cite error: The named reference Alaska Postponed was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[NPIAS_Airports-5] "NPIAS Report 2023-2027 Appendix A" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. October 6, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2023.

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