Harvey Airfield

Infobox Airport
name = Harvey Airfield
(Harvey Field)


caption =
IATA = S43
ICAO = S43
type = Public
owner = Kandace Harvey
location = Snohomish, Washington
elevation-f = 16
elevation-m = 5
coordinates = coord|47|54|29.3510|N|122|06|19.4660|W|type:airport
website = [http://harveyfield.com/ harveyfield.com]
r1-number = 32R/14L
r1-length-f = 2750
r1-length-m = 838
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 32L/14R
r2-length-f = 2660
r2-length-m = 811
r2-surface = Turf
stat-year = 2006
stat1-header = Passengers
stat1-data = Unknown
stat2-header = Aircraft movements
stat2-data = 140,700
footnotes = Info from Harvey Field website [cite web
url= http://harveyfield.com/hafinfo.htm
accessdate = 2007-08-15
title= Airport Information
publisher= Harvey Field] and Snohomish County Business Journal [cite news
url= http://www.snohomishcountybusinessjournal.com/archive/jul06/harveyfield-jul06.htm
accessdate= 2007-08-15
last= Wolcott
first= John
title= Field of Dreams
work= Snohomish County Business Journal
date= July 2006
publisher= The Herald
location= Everett, Washington] __TOC__

Harvey Airfield, a.k.a. Harvey Field, (Its identifier is S43), is a small airport located in Snohomish, Washington. The airfield has one convert|2750|ft|m|sing=on asphalt runway, one convert|2660|ft|m|sing=on turf runway and fourteen hangar bays. It covers an area of approximately 76 acres and is home to over 350 based aircraft including six helicopters and eight multi-engine planes, and nearly two dozen businesses including a hot-air balloon charter business.

History

Harvey Airfield was established in 1944 by Noble and Eldon Harvey and Wesley Loback on the Harvey family's property. In 1947, the family added a restaurant, administration building, and a maintenance shop. The airfield was run by Eldon and Marjorie until Richard and Kandace Harvey began managing airfield operations in the early 1970s. After Richard Harvey died due to cancer in 1995, Kandace Harvey took over ownership and operation of the airport with her four children. They have managed the airfield to date.

Tourism

Since its establishment, Harvey Airfield has played a key role in attracting tourists to Snohomish. It offers balloon, helicopter and biplane rides to tourists, as well as skydiving. The annual Corn Roast Fly-In in August attracts people from around the region, where they can examine airplanes for sale or show.

kydiving

Harvey is home to the Seattle Skydivers, the oldest parachuting club in the United States. Tyson Harvey is the owner of Skydive Snohomish, the skydiving charter on the field. The business oversees almost 15,000 jumps every year.

Aircraft

Harvey Field is home to over 350-based aircraft and oversees over 140,000 operations per year.

Issues and Goals

In an article for the Snohomish County Business Journal, Kandace Harvey said, “I face three major challenges: land-use and zoning issues as the area grows around us, operating an airport and industrial park in a flood plain, and aircraft noise, We don’t have a lot of difficulty with the sparsely settled rural residential area around us, but at the north end of our runway, the city of Snohomish is close by, just over the Snohomish River. We do get noise complaints from residents of two blocks of homes there. If our zoning will let us continue to grow, we want to extend our runway by convert|1000|ft|m, which will put aircraft taking off to the north at least another 500 to convert|700|ft|m higher. People in town would hardly notice it anymore.”

Benefits

A 2001 study by the Washington state Department of Transportation’s Aviation Division credited Harvey Field for providing nearly 450 jobs, more than $7.5 million in annual payrolls and an economic impact on the local community of more than $22.2 million each year. As stated above, the airfield also provides a base for tourism. [cite web
url = http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/881E5B13-5FC6-4C30-9EB6-5A42546446A3/0/NWR_HarveyField.pdf
accessdate= 2007-08-15
last= Bucher Willis and Ratliff Corporation
year= 2001
title= Harvey Field (S43)
work= Northwest Region Economic Impacts of Washington Airports
publisher = Washington State Department of Transportation]

ources

* [http://www.snohomishcountybusinessjournal.com/archive/jul06/harveyfield-jul06.htm Snohomish County Business Journal article on Harvey] July 2006

External links

* [http://www.harveyfield.com Harvey Field main site]
* [http://www.airnav.com/airport/S43 FAA information on Harvey]
* [http://www.controller.com/dealers/detail.asp?guid=&CID=1251345&mode=fbo Harvey Summary at controller.com]