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Seattle Seaplanes Seaplane Base is a compact seaplane facility on Lake Union in downtown Seattle, Washington, operated by Seattle Seaplanes for scenic and charter flights. It offers a single water landing area aligned north-south, sitting amid the busy waterfront just north of the city centre.
Seattle Seaplanes Seaplane Base occupies a stretch of Lake Union just north of downtown Seattle, and is home to Seattle Seaplanes, an operator running scenic and charter seaplane flights from a small terminal and hangar on the shoreline. For a simulator pilot it offers an unusual urban seaplane experience, with a water runway threaded between the city skyline and the surrounding lake traffic.
The base lies on Lake Union, about one mile north of Seattle, Washington, on a stretch of water covering roughly 600 acres. It sits within the busy Seattle terminal airspace, and pilots operating here coordinate clearance delivery through Seattle Approach control.
The facility has one physical water runway, oriented 18/36, listed as 18W/36W, each direction 5036 feet long with a water surface. There is no ILS.
No published communications frequency is listed for the seaplane base itself; clearance delivery for operations here is handled through Seattle Approach control rather than a dedicated base frequency.
Lake Union itself, running through the heart of Seattle, is the principal visual reference for locating the base, with the city's Space Needle visible from the water in the vicinity of the seaplane terminal and hangar.
The base is home to Seattle Seaplanes, whose terminal and hangar stand on the Lake Union shoreline supporting scenic and charter seaplane operations.
