Shady Acres Airport
3B8 · Spanaway, Washington · Pierce County · map
Shady Acres Airport is a public-use airport owned by Shady Acres Apt INC, 3 miles southeast of Spanaway, Washington, 445 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 1,800 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3B8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Shady Acres Apt INC
- Elevation
- 445 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 1,800 × 20 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: trees 55 ft high 819 ft from the end
- Runway 34: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 200 ft, trees 105 ft high 605 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Spanaway from the FAA register
37 aircraft are registered to owners in Spanaway, Washington: 31 piston singles, 3 balloons, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 electric aircraft. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided all traffic patterns are estabd to the east from the airport.
- Landing pattern indicator painted on runway.
- Pilots bring own tie-downs.
- 90 feet trees, 111 feet R from runway end. 5 feet fence, brush, embankment and road, 73 feet R from runway end. 15 feet tree. 64 feet L, 80 feet runway end.
- Road at 23 feet; runway 34 approach slp 13:1 to dthr; 9 feet sign, 76 feet L, at 21 feet from runway end; 9 feet sign 69 feet R at 20 feet; 39 feet pole 111 feet L at 18 feet from runway end. Six 4 feet reflective posts at 12 feet cntrd on runway. 4 feet fence at 13 feet cntrd on runway. 60 feet trees, 89 feet R, 86 feet from runway.
- +80 feet building 1,320 feet northwest runway 16 end.
- Runway 16 ID is not standard dist from runway end.
- Displaced thld marked with non-standard chevrons.
- Approach ratio 0:1 from displaced thld to 4 feet fence at 0 feet, 100 feet L; 33 feet pwr pole at 206 feet, 81 feet R.
- All patterns to the east.
- Shady Acres painted on runway midfield.
- Power line east trees. Pwr pole north of field trees marked with orange balls.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.