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  • Twin-Engine Commercial Jet on Final Approach to Sea-Tac Airport with ALS Lighting

    A twin-engine commercial jet aircraft on final approach is aligned with an Approach Lighting System (ALS) featuring orange crossbar structures and sequenced flasher lights. A 'Lineage' logistics facility is visible in the background left, consistent with the industrial corridor adjacent to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
    TagsAir Traffic Control, aircraft, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View, Mid-Century Layout

    Aerial photograph of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) showing the original terminal building with control tower, surrounding parking lots, access roads, and aircraft gates. The image captures the airport's mid-century layout prior to major expansions, consistent with the period shortly after its 1949 opening through the early jet age, with propeller and early jet aircraft visible at the gates.
    Tagsaircraft, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View Showing United Air Lines Terminal, circa 1960s

    Aerial photograph of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport showing the terminal complex, parking areas, taxiways, and aircraft on the apron. A building in the lower portion of the image is clearly labeled 'United Air Lines,' indicating this photo dates from the jet era of airport operations, likely the 1960s based on the aircraft types and terminal configuration visible.
    Tagsaircraft, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View, circa Late 1950s–Early 1960s

    Black-and-white aerial photograph showing a commercial airport terminal complex with multiple propeller and early jet aircraft at gates, large surface parking lots, and suburban landscape visible in the background. The layout, runway configuration, and architectural style are consistent with a mid-century Pacific Northwest regional airport, likely dating to the late 1950s or early 1960s.
    Tagsaircraft, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View, 1960s–1970s

    Aerial photograph showing a large airport terminal complex with multiple aircraft bearing red tail livery consistent with Northwest Airlines, extensive surface parking lots, and runway infrastructure visible in the background. The dry summer conditions, vehicle styles, and airport layout are consistent with a Pacific Northwest hub airport from the 1960s–1970s era, possibly Sea-Tac or Portland International.
    Tagsaircraft, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View During Expansion Construction

    Black-and-white aerial photograph showing a major commercial airport with a central runway, terminal complex with jet aircraft at gates visible on the right side, and extensive grading and construction activity suggesting a significant expansion project underway. Fuel storage tanks and support facilities are visible in the lower right quadrant.
    TagsAirport Expansion, Construction, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View During Terminal Expansion Construction

    Aerial photograph showing Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) during a major construction/expansion phase, with the existing terminal complex and aircraft gates visible in the background and large-scale earthwork and new terminal foundation construction underway in the foreground. Multiple commercial jet aircraft are visible at gates, and the surrounding roadway infrastructure and parking areas are partially complete, consistent with Sea-Tac's expansion construction in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
    TagsAirport Expansion, Construction, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Sea-Tac Airport Aerial View, circa 1970s

    Aerial photograph showing a large airport terminal with a curved concourse design, a multi-story parking garage with a circular ramp system, and numerous aircraft at gates. The image appears to date from the 1970s based on aircraft types, vehicle styles, and construction era of the facilities visible, consistent with Sea-Tac Airport's terminal expansion period.
    TagsAirport Expansion, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • Aerial View of Sea-Tac Airport Runways and Adjacent Residential Neighborhood

    Black-and-white aerial photograph showing a mid-20th century airport with multiple runways and taxiways in the background, and a residential neighborhood with a large oval water reservoir or sports track and modernist institutional buildings in the foreground. No visible text, captions, or watermarks are present in the image.
    TagsHistory, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways
  • STIA historical south east aerial

    Aerial photograph looking north toward Sea-Tac Airport showing terminal buildings, aircraft at gates, and a Western Airlines facility (visible signage on left). The foreground shows the International Boulevard/Pacific Highway South commercial corridor with motels, parking lots, and retail businesses adjacent to the airport.
    Tagsaircraft, History, Runways, Sea-Tac AirportFolderRunways

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  • Stay Grounded Event: Night trains, not night planes!
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    For the past two years, more than 220 initiatives from 15 countries have declared September 13th as the International day for the ban of night flights at airports. In parallel, activists across Europe have been gathering for pyjama parties for night trains – coordinated in 2024 and 2025 by Back on Track and Stay Grounded.

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    a) Part 150 Noise Study (Emily Inlow-Hood) — 15 minutes
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Sea-Tac Airport is currently undergoing the largest and longest expansion in its history, collectively known as the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP). Some of it you can already hear, but you’re probably not aware of what it all means. Here’s what you need to know.
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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.
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