Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center

The Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center (or ZSE or Seattle Center or Seattle ARTCC) is the area control center responsible for controlling and ensuring proper separation of IFR aircraft in Washington state, most of Oregon, and parts of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and California, as well as the neighboring area into the Pacific Ocean.[1]

The control center is located at 3101 Auburn Way S, Auburn, Washington, which is 11.5 miles (18.5 km) from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, the only Class B airport served by the center.[citation needed] The center was moved from Sea-Tac to a three-story facility in Auburn in August 1962.[2][3] The Auburn facility was the first to replace its radar systems with digital displays in 1999.[4]

Airports served

Class B

Class C

The following Class C airports in the Seattle ARTCC have continuously operating control towers:

Class D

The following are Class D airports in the Seattle ARTCC. Those with continuously operating control towers (as opposed to control towers closed during the night) are italicized.

Class E

The following airports in the Seattle ARTCC airspace are nontowered, Class E airports:

Subdivisions

Control area

Map of US ARTCCs

References

  1. ^ Stahl, Eric M. (January 3, 1992). "Auburn FAA center going high-tech". The News Tribune. p. B1.
  2. ^ "Light-Plane Use on Rise, Says Halaby". The Seattle Times. August 21, 1962. p. 25.
  3. ^ "FAA to dedicate center". The Everett Herald. May 17, 1972. p. 7E.
  4. ^ Sunde, Scott (January 21, 1999). "Strips of paper kept Sea-Tac planes from colliding". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. B1.

47°17′13″N 122°11′18″W / 47.2870°N 122.1882°W / 47.2870; -122.1882