Spanish Fork Municipal Airport Woodhouse Field

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Spanish Fork Municipal Airport Woodhouse Field
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Aerial view of the Spanish Fork Airport,
August 2008
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Spanish Fork
ServesSpanish Fork and southern Utah County
LocationSpanish Fork, Utah
United States
Time zone Mountain Time Zone (UTC-07:00 MST UTC-06:00 MDT)
Elevation  AMSL 4,529 ft / 1,380 m
Coordinates 40°08′31″N111°39′48″W / 40.14194°N 111.66333°W / 40.14194; -111.66333
Website www.spanishfork.org/departments/airport/index.php
Map
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Runways
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12/306,5001,983Asphalt

Spanish Fork Municipal Airport Woodhouse Field (FAA LID:SPK), formerly known as the Spanish Fork-Springville Airport, is a general aviation airport located in north Spanish Fork, Utah, United States, that serves southern Utah County. [1]

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Description

The airport is located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of the nearby Provo Municipal Airport. [2] The Spanish Fork airport is home to Wings and Wheels: Utah's Festival of Speed (formerly Aeroplanes, Trains, and Automobiles), [3] [4] an annual event celebrating anything that flies through the air or down the road.

History

Former airport sign with former name, June 2016 Spanish Fork-Springville Airport sign, Jun 16.jpg
Former airport sign with former name, June 2016

The city of Spanish Fork participated in the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that offered to build airports for cities during the late 1920's and 1930's. cities needed to provide the required acreage of fenced land with road access to be eligible. The (then) 160-acre airport was built and certified in the summer of 1931. Between 1935 and 1936 the adjacent city of Springville made a request to build an airport. The Utah Aeronautics Board (UAB) and Civil Aviation Board (CAB), predecessor to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), rejected Springville's proposal due to the close proximity to the Spanish Fork Airport. The UAB and CAB suggested that the two cities team-up to operate the airport. Springville paid Spanish Fork half of the airport costs and built the required access road to the airport. In 2019, Springville bowed out as a partner of the airport and Spanish Fork City once again has sole ownership. Spanish Fork officially renamed the airport as the "'Spanish Fork Municipal Airport Woodhouse Field".

The airport has continued to develop over the years and as of 2021 was a home base for 240 aircraft, a fixed base operator (FBO), multiple flight schools, and an aircraft manufacturing company.

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References

  1. ↑ "Airport". spanishfork.org. Spanish Fork city. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  2. ↑ Google (September 8, 2023). "Spanish Fork Municipal Airport/Woodhouse Field" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Wings and Wheels: Utah's Festival of Speed". spanishfork.org. Spanish Fork city. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  4. ↑ Bell, Jason (September 23, 2022). "Wings & Wheels: Utah's Festival of Speed returns for its 10th anniversary Saturday". ksl.com . Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media . Retrieved September 8, 2023.


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