Chauncey Jones designed the T-shirt art for the semiannual Boeing Field FOD Day 2026. [Credit: King County International Airport]
Key Takeaways:
King County International Airport (KBFI) held a semiannual FOD (Foreign Object Debris) walk, engaging 100 civilian volunteers to clear its 10,007-foot runway.
The event aimed to enhance airport safety by removing dangerous debris, also serving as a successful community outreach initiative.
Volunteers systematically inspected the temporarily closed runway, finding minimal FOD, and were rewarded with commemorative T-shirts and free admission to the Museum of Flight.
We came. We walked. We looked for trash—and were happy when little or none was found. Because trash on an active runway, which is known as FOD (foreign object debris), is dangerous.
I was one of 100 civilian volunteers to turn out in Seattle on Saturday for the King County International Airport-Boeing Field (KBFI) FOD walk.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
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