'Great value': Air National Guard cedes airport parcels to Paine Field

EVERETT — It’s only 14 acres, but at Everett’s bursting-at-the-seams airport, that’s a lot.

The Washington Air National Guard will transfer three parcels it owns at Paine Field Airport to Snohomish County. The military defense wing began operations at the airport in 1953, but left 60 years later in 2013.

“We’ve been trying to get that property for three decades,” said airport spokesperson Kristin Banfield.

The transfer is written into this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, the annual defense policy bill passed Thursday by the House of Representatives.

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