Seattle ARTCC

Seattle ARTCC (1962-Active) - One of 22 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States. Established in 1962 in Auburn, King County, Washington. Assigned an FAA ID of ZSE. Active FAA Air Traffic Control Center. Also known as Seattle Center. Seattle ARTCC Complex in Auburn, Washington. History The Seattle ARTCC is located at 3101 Auburn Way South, Auburn Washington. and was opened at this location in 1962. The original Seattle ARTCC was located at the Boeing Field Administration Building in 1940 and control instructions were relayed to pilots via company phone lines. In 1950, Seattle ARTCC moved to the Seattle Tacoma Airport (SeaTac) Administration Building, where the first radio was commissioned in the facility allowing direct controller to pilot. In 1962 the ARTCC moved from SeaTac to its current location in Auburn, Washington. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system of 24 FAA Area Control Centers, 20 in the lower 48 United States, one in Alaska, one in Hawaii, one in Puerto Rica and one in Guam. The system operates with radar data provided by FAA radar sites, DoD radar sites, and other federal agency radar sites. These centers provide en route and oceanic services to private, commercial, and military aircraft overflying their respective control areas. As aircraft enter or exit from one control area to the next, responsibility for the aircraft is transferred to the gaining ARTCC. Voice communication between aircraft and the ARTCCs is supported by a network of ground-air radio sites often co-located with the radar sites. The gathering of radar, beacon and other sensor data are now largely automated and continuous, but the actions necessary to control the airspace are conversational and require some 14,000 FAA air traffic controllers talking directly to pilots in the air and on the ground at terminals. This number does not include military air traffic controllers. The Seattle ARTCC airspace encompasses some 261,000 square miles including all of Washington, most of Oregon, and portions of Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and California. The center boundaries extend from the Canadian border to Northern California and from western Montana to 150 miles off the Pacific Coast. There are nine approach controls in Seattle Center’s airspace. The Seattle Center also works with Vancouver and Edmonton Control Centers to the north, Salt Lake City center to the east, and Oakland Center to the south and west. Seattle ARTCC (ZSE) Total Operations (aircraft handled) 1,173,627 FY2016 Total Operations (aircraft handled) 1,206,438 FY2017 Operations Rank 20/24 FY2017 En-Route Air Traffic Controllers 179 a/o 17 Sep 2016 Airspace Area (sq miles) 261,000 Seattle ARTCC Radar Sites (edit list) FAA JSS NORAD Site St_ Equip_ Status Origin GPS ARTCC Notes ZQVN Fossil OR CARSR ATCBI-6 Active 44.96028, -119.9517 ZSE ZLMT J-82 Z-180 Klamath Falls OR CARSR ATCBI-6 Active Keno AFS 42.06889, -121.97222 ZSE ZQFL J-81 Z-345 Falls City OR ARSR-4 ATCBI-6M Active 44.92278, -123.57361 ZSE Changed from Salem (SLE), 2012 ZSEA Z-001 Fort Lawton WA CARSR ATCBI-6 Active Fort Lawton AFS 47.6575, -122.41306 ZSE * ZQMI J-79 Z-151 Mica Peak WA ARSR-4 ATCBI-6M Active Mica Peak AFS 47.57389, -117.08111 ZSE * ZQKW J-80 Z-044 Makah WA ARSR-4 ATCBI-6M Active Makah AFS 48.37167, -124.67500 ZSE * Note: This list includes only long-range FAA Radar Sites listed with this ARTCC as the Overlying Enroute Center. Adjacent ARTCC sector sites are not shown and short-range terminal radar sites are not shown. Current Status Active FAA ARTCC facility in Auburn, King County, Washington. {"selectable":false,"height":"-500","width":"-500"} Location: 3101 Auburn Way South, Auburn Washington. Maps & Images Lat: 47.28693 Long: -122.18819 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: 289' GPS Locations: 47.28693, -122.18819 Seattle ARTCC See Also: FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers JSS and FAA Radar Sites Sources: Facility Orientation Guide - Seattle ARTCC, Federal Aviation Administration, June 2014. Administrator's Fact Book, Federal Aviation Administration, May 2019, archived 4 Jun 2019, Pdf 2017-2026 Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, Federal Aviation Administration, 2017, archived 5 Jun 2019, Pdf Air Traffic by the Numbers, Federal Aviation Administration, 2018, archived 5 Jun 2019, Pdf Computer system to Improve air safety unveiled in LA, The Napa Valley Register (Napa, California), 11 Mar 1988, page 20, archived 7 Jul 2019. Links: Wikipedia - Seattle ARTCC Fortification ID: WA0283 - Seattle ARTCC WA0334 - Seattle Center Visited: 31 May 2019