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{{Infobox Airport
| name         = Grove Field
| image        = Grove Field, August 2020.jpg
| FAA          = 1W1
| type         = Public
| owner        = Port of Camas - Washougal
| operator     = 
| city-served  = [[Camas, Washington]]
| location     = 
| elevation-f  = 429
| elevation-m  = 131
| website      = 
| r1-number    = 7/25
| r1-length-f  = 2,710
| r1-length-m  = 826
| r1-surface   = [[Asphalt concrete|Asphalt]]
| stat-year    = 2007
| stat1-header = Aircraft operations
| stat1-data   = 10,000
| stat2-header = Based aircraft
| stat2-data   = 86
| footnotes    = Source: [[Federal Aviation Administration]]<ref name=FAA>{{FAA-airport|ID=1W1|use=PU|own=PU|site=26130.*A}}, effective 2007-12-20</ref>
}}

'''Grove Field''' {{airport codes|||1W1}} is a public [[airport]] located three miles (5&nbsp;km) north of the [[central business district]] of [[Camas, Washington|Camas]], a city in [[Clark County, Washington]], United States.<ref name=FAA /> It is located near [[Lacamas Lake]] which has a [[seaplane]] base. Due to the closing of [[Evergreen Field]], many aircraft have moved to Grove Field.

== Facilities and aircraft ==
Grove Field covers an area of {{convert|23|acre|ha}} which contains one [[runway]] (7/25) with a 2,710 x 40&nbsp;ft (826 x 12 m) [[Asphalt concrete|asphalt]] pavement. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2007, the airport had 10,000 [[general aviation]] aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day. At that time there were 86 aircraft based at this airport: 99% single-engine and 1% multi-engine.<ref name=FAA /> Flight training, aircraft rental and minor maintenance services are available at Grove.<ref>{{cite web|title=Camas Washougal Aviation Association - Services|url=http://www.cwaagrovefield.org/services|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306022447/http://www.cwaagrovefield.org/services|archivedate=2012-03-06}}</ref>

==History==
The air field is named for Ward Grove who built the airfield in 1945. Grove moved to [[Vancouver, Washington]] in 1924 and learned to fly in [[Portland, Oregon]] at the Rankin Flying School operated by [[Tex Rankin]]. During [[World War II]], Grove taught flying in California and returned to Clark County, Washington after the war. The [[Port of Camas-Washougal]] bought the airstrip from him in 1961 and in 1984, the Port Commission voted to name the field in his honor. Grove died in 1993.<ref>Jolotta, Pat, "Naming Clark County, Vancouver Historical Society, 1993, p. 24</ref> A fire on October 6, 2014, did $1 million in damage to 10 hangars at the airport.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hall|first1=Kasia|title=Grove Field Airport hanger<!--sic--> fire sparked by electrical failure, fire investigators say.|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2014/10/grove_field_airport_hanger_fir.html|accessdate=15 October 2014|work=The Oregonian|date=October 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hall|first1=Kasia|title=Fire crews respond to 2-alarm fire at at(sic) Grove Field Airport|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2014/10/fire_crews_respond_to_2-alarm.html|accessdate=15 October 2014|work=The Oregonian|date=October 6, 2014}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of airports in Washington (state)|List of airports in Washington]]

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.portcw.com/index.php/airport/ Grove Field] at Port of Camas - Washougal
*[http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/AllStateAirports/Camas_GroveField.htm Grove Field] at [[Washington State DOT]]
*[http://www.cwaagrovefield.org/ Camas Washougal Aviation Association]
*[https://www.flyitacademy.com/ Flyit Academy], flight school at Grove Field
*{{US-airport-minor|1W1}}

{{Airports in Washington}}

[[Category:Airports in Washington (state)]]
[[Category:Airports in Clark County, Washington]]
[[Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Clark County, Washington]]
[[Category:History of aviation]]
[[Category:Camas, Washington]]