{"id":8986,"date":"2020-06-16T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:12:08","slug":"military-helicopters-to-refuel-at-yakima-airport-for-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/military-helicopters-to-refuel-at-yakima-airport-for-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Helicopters to Refuel at Yakima Airport for Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday, June 17<sup>th<\/sup>, Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field (YKM) will see an increase in military activities in support of a small mission at the Yakima Training Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 5:00 pm tomorrow, Wednesday, a CH-47 Chinook from Joint Base Lewis-McChord will arrive at YKM and set up a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) adjacent to the airport Administration Office. After the FARP is established, eight Apache helicopters will arrive, refuel and depart for their respective missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The helicopters will return to YKM to refuel at 9:00 pm tomorrow, then depart the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere should be no impacts to aircraft or airline operations,\u201d said Yakima Airport Director Rob Peterson. \u201cThe community will see a minor increase in helicopter activities as they arrive and depart the airport at approximately 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public can view the helicopter operations from the vehicle parking lot adjacent to the airport\u2019s Administration Building, 2406 West Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/flyykm.com\/\">https:\/\/flyykm.com\/<\/a> for more about the Yakima Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Military-Helicopters-at-Airport-News-Release.pdf\">Military-Helicopters-at-Airport-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Military-Helicopters-at-Airport-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, June 17th, Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field (YKM) will see an increase in military activities in support of a small mission at the Yakima Training Center. At approximately 5:00 pm tomorrow, Wednesday, a CH-47 Chinook from Joint Base Lewis-McChord will arrive at YKM and set up a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) adjacent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8990,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions\/8990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}