{"id":27011,"date":"2016-01-28T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/?p=27011"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:50:02","slug":"kykm-yakima-air-terminalmcallister-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/private-airports\/kykm-yakima-air-terminalmcallister-field\/","title":{"rendered":"KYKM &#8211; Yakima Air Terminal\/Mcallister Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"329\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28116\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-8.png 329w, http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-8-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The McAllister Airfield first officially operated in 1926 (Goodman\u2019s pasture had been in use unofficially before 1928) in an 80 acre field cleared from sagebrush with a single runway added. \u00a0In 1932, the airport was improved by adding a 2,600-foot long gravel landing strip with a drainage system.  Shortly after this, the area was graded and surfaced for Runway 9\/27 (3,750 feet) and Runway 4\/22 (3,000 feet).  In 1940, the old runways were converted into taxiways, and a new 5,000-foot runway (the new Runway 9\/27) and a new 4,000-foot runway (the new Runway 4\/22) were completed.  During World War II\u00a0the airfield was used by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Air_Forces\">United States Army Air Forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1949, a new passenger terminal was constructed, which also housed the FAA control tower and the local National Weather Service office.  The airport installed its first Instrument Landing System on Runway 9\/27 in 1953.  In 1974, the FAA built a new control tower which is still operational today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, numerous airlines served Yakima from multiple cities, but today, the airport is only served by Alaska Airlines with daily flights to Seattle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yakima_Air_Terminal#:~:text=The%20airfield%20first%20officially%20operated,%2C%20ND%20%2D%20Minneapolis\/St.\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yakima_Air_Terminal#:~:text=The%20airfield%20first%20officially%20operated,%2C%20ND%20%2D%20Minneapolis\/St.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fly-ykm wp-block-embed-fly-ykm\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3E9CVsKWpH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flyykm.com\/general-info\/\">History<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;History&#8221; &#8212; FLY YKM\" src=\"https:\/\/flyykm.com\/general-info\/embed\/#?secret=eiu1lmeHYi#?secret=3E9CVsKWpH\" data-secret=\"3E9CVsKWpH\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-airports","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28118,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27011\/revisions\/28118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}