Crest Airfield
S36 · Covington, Washington · King County · map
Crest Airfield is a public-use airport owned by Crest Airfield, LLC, 1 mile sse of Covington, Washington, 472 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,288 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA S36
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Crest Airfield, LLC
- Elevation
- 472 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,288 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: trees 80 ft high 849 ft from the end
- Runway 34: threshold displaced 281 ft, trees 107 ft high 1,560 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Covington from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Covington, Washington: 10 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 helicopter. 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 · 23 since 1982, 4 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
- Trees both sides of runway in trsn surface.
- Pilots bring own tie-downs.
- 24 hour credit card fuel available.
- Trees in prim surface, parked aircraft in prim surface both sides of runway and 3 feet sign, 92 feet left, 46 feet from threshold.
- +95 feet trees in pri surface 0-200 feet from threshold, 120 feet right.
- Markings faded.
- Markings faded.
- 15/33 non-standard markings nrs and centerline only; faded.
- Runway 33 approach ratio 6:1 from displaced threshold.
- Trees on both sides of runway 15/33.
- Night operations use runway 15, wind and weather pmtg.
- Airport closed when snow on runway.
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.