The next time you’re stuck in a long line of cars approaching the international border, imagine you were instead bouncing along a gravel runway and across the 49th parallel at the controls of your Cessna.
in 1949; and about a dozen more followed in the 1950s. In a Seattle Times article in July 1962, William A. Gebenini, director of the Aeronautics Commission, described how the state-owned fields were not restricted to emergency use.
“He wanted an airport that people could land and take off without any charge,” Slagle told KIRO Newsradio in November 2020, describing her husband’s aspirations for Avey Field. “It’s just for people to enjoy now. That’s what my husband wanted in the first place.” Airfield namesake Arthur K. Avey passed away in 2013 at age 95. He was a military pilot and flight instructor during World War II, and served in the Washington State House from 1958 to 1968. Avey was mayor of Kettle Falls for 20 years, as well as head of the Washington Aeronautics Board during its heyday – when it was building airstrips around the Evergreen State that remain in use to this day.
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