Auburn Municipal
S50 · Auburn, Washington · King County · map
Auburn Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Auburn, 1 mile north of Auburn, Washington, 63 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,842 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA S50
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Auburn
- Elevation
- 63 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1970
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,842 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 200 ft, building 25 ft high 700 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the right, threshold displaced 241 ft, other 18 ft high 442 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.975 | |
| Approach and departure · Clearance delivery | 123.85 | |
| S50 and aWOS-3PT | 118.050 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 253-802-0933.
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 Auburn from the FAA register
136 aircraft are registered to owners in Auburn, Washington: 102 piston singles, 23 drones, 4 helicopters, 2 turboprops, 2 balloons. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Washington.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 35 since 1982, 2 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 17 and 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 17 and 35 operates continuously.
- Calm wind runway.
- PAPI unusble beyond 10 degreess right of centerline.
- 20:1 approach slope; 80 feet E-W pwr line 1804 feet north of threshold.
- Ctlg obstruction parking lot light poles.
- Ultralight NA. otfc of residential area east of airport NA. traffic pattern instrn - amgr.
- Birds and wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- Calm wind runway: 35
- Avoid runway dla when pattern actv.
- Winter weather rpt MON-FRI 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
- Ref airport website for pattern information and noise abatement.
- Weather rprt available, key mic 4 times on frequency 122.8.
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.