Olympia Regional Airport
Airport in Tumwater, Washington / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Olympia Regional Airport[1][2][3] (IATA: OLM, ICAO: KOLM, FAA LID: OLM) is a public use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) south of the central business district of Olympia, a city in Thurston County and the capital of the U.S. state of Washington. It is owned by the Port of Olympia. It is about one mile (1.6 km) east of Interstate 5, actually within the boundaries of the city of Tumwater which is south of and adjacent to Olympia. The airport was identified in the Washington State Department of Transportation Long Term Aviation Study as a field that could potentially serve to relieve Seattle-Tacoma International Airport of increasing congestion.[4]
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Port of Olympia | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Olympia, Washington | ||||||||||||||
Location | Tumwater, Washington | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 208 ft / 63 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°58′10″N 122°54′09″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Olympic Flight Museum is located at the Olympia Airport, and Airlift Northwest, the region's air medical transport service uses the airport as one of its medical helicopter bases; a large private-use heliport, known as Olympia Heliport (FAA LID: 0WN4) is located on airport grounds.[5] The flight museum and the airport play host to a moderate sized air show each June.
The airport's industrial park, 300 acres (1.2 km2) in extent, includes a U.S. Department of Commerce designated Free Trade Zone.