Norman Grier Field , formerly Crest Airpark, is a public
airport
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located five miles (8 km) southeast of the
central business district
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of
Kent
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, a city in
King County, Washington
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, United States.
The airport is on a hill and surrounded by trees. Private residences also surround the airport. Many are able to hangar an aircraft that can be taxied to the runway.
History
Crest Airpark was developed in 1963 by Al and Virginia Knechtel as a public use privately owned airport. The ownership changed in 1967 when Virginia Knechtel married Stan Neslund following Al Knechtel's death in an airplane accident in 1966. The first of fou
Flying Acres subdivisionswith
airpark
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access was developed in 1970. As of 2024, 118 Flying Acres properties have airport access. In 1974, Bill Lardent and Norman Grier bought the airport property. The Flying Acres subdivisions surrounding the airport remained the property of Stan and Virginia Neslund. Norm Grier purchased total interest of the airport from Bill Lardent in 1980. Norman Grier owned the airport until his death in 2017. It was renamed Norman Grier Field after his death.
The airport remains property of the Grier family and is operated by Norm Grier's daughter, Rikki Birge.
Facilities and aircraft
Norman Grier Field covers an area of which contains one
asphalt
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* Bitumen, also known as "liquid asphalt cement" or simply "asphalt", a viscous form of petroleum mainly used as a binder in asphalt concrete
* Asphalt concrete, a mixture of bitumen with coarse and fine aggregates, u ...
paved
runway
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(15/33) measuring 3,288 x 40 ft (1,002 x 12 m).
100LL fuel is available pay at the pump near the FBO.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 99,000
general aviation
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aircraft operations, an average of 271 per day. There are 332 aircraft based at this airport: 98% single-engine and 2% multi-engine.
See also
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List of airports in Washington
References
External links
Crest Airpark WebsiteFlying Acres Homeowners Association
Airports in Washington (state)
Residential airparks
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