Enumclaw Airport WA77

12/07/2025

10/10/2025

WPA Dinner & Speaker Night – Enumclaw Airport (WA77)

Join us for a dinner and presentation for our members with Kevin Thomson, local pilot and air traffic controller, sharing “The Basics About Our National Safety Board.”

Kevin’s bringing a great slideshow on NTSB tools, accident analysis, icing, decision-making, and real-world lessons every pilot can use.

Friday October 10th | 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Hangar 1 – Enumclaw Airport
💵 $30 dinner at the door + $40 annual WPA membership (if you’re not already a member)
Dinner by EJ’s Catering, you’re welcome to bring your own drinks.
No RSVP needed — you can join or renew on site.

Good food, good people, solid hangar talk.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas! St. Nick is departing North Pole, Alaska for Strebig IN, and then Enumclaw WA (WA77)
Hope the kids are in bed because he is moving 999 Knots and going to be here to load up your Christmas trees before you know it!! Thanks goes out to Kevin Thomson (one of our local pilots and an Air Traffic Controller) for keeping tabs on the big guy and relaying his position to us!

86 years ago when this airport was started, there is no way they would have imagined that we could sit here on Christmas Eve and track Santa’s flight all the way to our rooftops. We love this technology😂

06/04/2024

We are excited to have this team out here! Worth noting: the National Park Service does have crew based at the airport but their office is not a public access point. If you have questions or would like more information, it’s best to contact the NPS directly. They have been really great about responding to feedback and inquiries.

The new base helps the rescue team react faster to not only national park rescues, but wildfires

04/24/2024

The National Park Service's Search and Rescue Helicopter arrived at the Enumclaw Airport on April 23rd. The helicopter and crew are new tenants at the Enumclaw Airport and will be utilizing it as their primary Helibase as they provide support operations for the parks.

Training exercises at the airport to prepare for the upcoming summer season will occur on occasion during the daytime (between 9:00 and 4:00).

Along with providing rescue services to the Park Service, the helicopter and crew also support Wildland Fire incidents, Resource projects, and Backcountry Utilities.

For questions regarding the Park Service Helicopter and Crew, please visit the Park's contact info page:
https://www.nps.gov/mora/contacts.htm

If you want to talk about aviation or have any questions about our little 80 year old General Aviation airport, please don’t hesitate to call, message or email us! 360 820 7144

Superintendent Mount Rainier National Park 55210 238th Avenue East Ashford, WA 98304 NOTE: Please do NOT use the mailing address for GPS navigation. Instead use:

02/16/2024

Tonight from 6:30 to 9:00 at the Enumclaw Airport, the Greenriver chapter of the Washington Pilots Association is holding a General Meeting for their members (this event is for current WPA members and is not public) It’s an “Escape the Winter” themed social event to catch up with other pilots, sit down for a Hawaiian themed dinner, and watch a presentation hosted by John Smutny on the Dole Air Race. The WPA is an organization that promotes advocacy, general aviation, and community by staying involved with pilots, lawmakers, and airports around the state of Washington. If you’re interested in joining or participating, check them out online!

01/13/2024

We had a remarkable turnout at tonight’s Puget Sound Antique Aircraft Clubs January meeting, dinner, and presentation. I’m definitely having a “if you build it, they will come” moment and feel so excited that this many people would take time out of their busy lives to come out to the airport and talk about airplanes and swap stories. I feel like I’m hanging out in a time capsule 😉
As 2024 goes, we will get some activities going on out here that everyone in our community can participate in. Please keep watching to see what we have going on as we work to not only preserve & protect General Aviation but expand it to anyone who wants to participate.

12/15/2023

A new support group for people impacted by prostate cancer is meeting at the airport the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm. Contact Dave for information or if you want to get involved. 253 377 0835.

12/03/2023

No flying around the airport in this weather! We are just planning projects, shuffling through decades of photos, and waiting for the next high pressure system to move in. We hope you have a safe and warm holiday season, thanks for keeping an eye on what we are doing over here on the edge of town.

11/25/2023

Huge thanks to Randy Petite for a deck of photos from his dad showing off some of that 1982 nostalgia and for getting the photos digitized.

I feel new to aviation and the work that goes into being an advocate for a fringe, slightly obscure activity. However, looking to the past, through conversations with friends and seeing photos like these, I feel a little relief seeing that I’m on a well traveled path. Mix that in with the gratitude I receive from conversations at the grocery store and watching the lights come on in even newer pilots and I have no regrets for taking on this project.

I’m optimistic that the photos and videos that we are capturing today will be shared, hopefully triggering the same fondness and familiarity for future generations of aviators.

11/16/2023

As the days get shorter and the weather starts to get an attitude, I feel grateful for all the flying and late sunsets we enjoyed last summer.
We were able to take care of a lot of necessary things at the airport and are already changing focus to start working through the next round of projects.
The ultra noticeable & abbreviated highlights are:
The buildings and hangars are not falling down & we are an airport that has been refocused to be a place for people to operate their airplanes. Pilot shop is up and running, courtesy car is ready to roll, & coffee is always on.

The next projects revolve around answering a question: How we can be a “Community Airport”
There are big barriers to cross with this question, so I am starting small. The airport is not staffed with full time workers and it will be a while until we are, so for now, I work to be available to answer questions or relay information about local air traffic, airplane & aviation “stuff.”
I maintain a place that community organizations can reach out to for assistance. Need a spot to stage a helicopter to fight a fire in Greenwater or lift a lookout tower to the top of one of our local peaks, life flights and medical evacuations? We are here for that!

This coming Saturday the 18th, The Plateau Prostate Cancer Support Group is hosting a small gathering from 11 to 3 for lunch and fellowship in our community room. It’s for people and families impacted by cancer, contact Dave for event information (253) 377 0836

We host Washington Pilots Association & Puget Sound Antique Aircraft Club gatherings and this coming summer we will be taking a huge step forward and putting on outdoor “Movies in the Grass” style events open to EVERYONE! (13’ tall movie screen, license for public movie broadcasting, sound system, and a ton of green grass to set up chairs!!)

Also, I acquired a rental plane for a few local flight instructors to use starting early 2024, possibly expanding into an Enumclaw based flight service the first time in over 30 years.

Thanks for letting us be here. We will be getting our annual inspections done, feeding cats all the mice they can eat, and waiting for better weather.
-Justin Treat