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FAA diagram of the runway area Aerial view of NAS Whidbey Island in the mid-1940s. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) (IATA: NUW, ICAO: KNUW, FAA LID: NUW) is a naval air station of the United States Navy located on two pieces of land near Oak Harbor, on Whidbey Island, in Island County, Washington.
Map showing dB levels to areas surrounding NOLF Coupeville [5]. Jet noise has been an on and off concern to residents living near the Navy jet training field. In July 2013, a local citizens' group filed a lawsuit asking for an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) examining EA-18G Growler flight operations at NOLF Coupeville and NAS Whidbey Island. [6]
Kenmore Air Express ran a scheduled airline service to Whidbey Island serving the Oak Harbor airport from 2006 to 2009. [67] The United States Navy operates two airports on Whidbey Island. The largest is a two-runway airport located at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station north of Oak Harbor.
This is a list of airfields operated by the United States Navy which are located within the United States and abroad. The US Navy's main airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF) having a support role.
Notable private-use airports: Blakely Island: 38WA BYW Blakely Island Airport: Center Island: 78WA CWS Center Island Airport: Chelan: WA13: Seaplane Landing Area: Decatur Island: WN07 Decatur Shores Airport: Decatur Island: WA18 Decatur (Jones) Airport: 5 Lopez Island: S31 LPS Fishermans Bay/LPS Seaplane Base: Marysville: WN53 Frontier Airpark ...
It is used by NAS Whidbey Island as their principal training grounds for testing EA-18G Growler aircraft and for drone testing. [3] [4] It is located about 70 miles (110 km) south of the Yakima Training Center, which is used by Joint Base Lewis-McChord for training exercises and about 15 miles (24 km) west of the now closed Umatilla Chemical Depot.
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Admiralty Inlet Admiralty Inlet seen at low tide from Whidbey Island Port Townsend, Admiralty Inlet and Port Townsend Bay. Admiralty Inlet is a strait in the U.S. state of Washington connecting the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound. It lies between Whidbey Island and the northeastern part of the Olympic Peninsula.