Desert Aire is a census-designated place in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,288 at the 2020 census up from 1,626 at the 2010 census. In the late 1960s, a group of investors led by Harry Davidson, of Harry Davidson, Inc., bought 3,200 acres of land along the Columbia River near the Priest Rapids Dam for some $1,000,000…Desert Aire is a census-designated place in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,288 at the 2020 census up from 1,626 at the 2010 census. In the late 1960s, a group of investors led by Harry Davidson, of Harry Davidson, Inc., bought 3,200 acres of land along the Columbia River near the Priest Rapids Dam for some $1,000,000. Davidson cut in a runway and flew investors into his airport community in a Douglas DC-3. They developed a planned community of some 1,600 homes centered on the airport, a golf course and marina, which opened beginning in 1970. In 1994 the Grant County Airport District #1 was formed and now maintains the regional public-use airport in the community.
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