Sanderson Field

Sanderson Field
Sanderson Field
	IATA: SHN; ICAO: KSHN; FAA LID: SHN;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Port of Shelton
Serves	Shelton, Washington
Elevation AMSL	273 ft / 83 m
Coordinates	47°14′01″N 123°08′51″W / 47.23361°N 123.14750°W
Runways
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	44,209
Based aircraft	107
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Sanderson Field (IATA: SHN, ICAO: KSHN, FAA LID: SHN) is a public lighted-land airport located in Shelton, a city in Mason County, Washington, United States. It is located roughly one mile north and outside the Shelton city limits, and is owned by the Port of Shelton. It is bordered on the south by the Mason County Fairgrounds, on the north by a business park and Dayton Airport Road, on the west by the Washington State Patrol Training Academy, and on the east by U.S. Highway 101. The airport was named after Major General Lawson H. Sanderson of the United States Marine Corps.

History

The airport was officially dedicated on August 28, 1966. It formerly operated under the name Mason County Airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Sanderson Field covers an area of 1,054 acres (427 ha) at an elevation of 273 feet (83 m) above mean sea level. It has one active runway (5/23), running in an east-west orientation with a 5,005 by 100 ft (1,526 x 30 m) asphalt pavement.^[1] The active runway has medium-intensity runway edge lighting, installed in 1986, that operates from dusk to dawn. The primary approach is on Runway 23, which has a four-light Precision Approach Path Indicator system. A former runway (17/35) runs in a north-south orientation and has been deactivated since the early 1960s.

Services at Sanderson include minor airframe and powerplant repair by the only FBO (Fixed Base Operator), Olympic Air. Additionally, a 24-hour fuel station offers 100LL and JET-A grades of aircraft fuel. There are parking tiedowns for up to 36 aircraft on a spacious parking ramp adjacent to the Olympic Air maintenance shop, and construction begins in 2006 on a new 10,000 sq ft (930 m²) hangar. This new hangar will serve as headquarters for Kapowsin Air Sports Inc, which offers skydiving courses.

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 44,209 aircraft operations, an average of 121 per day: 50.2% general aviation, 49.5% military and <0.2% air taxi. At that time there were 107 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, 1% jet, 2% helicopter and 3% ultralight.^[1]