A Seattle airline hopes to start regular, daily flights out of Oak Harbor Airport by next spring or early summer.

Tim Brooks, director of operations for Kenmore Air, said he’s working closely with the FAA to re-establish an instrument approach at the airport on Monroe Landing Road. The navigational aids will allow airplanes to land in all weather and in darkness.

“We’re seriously interested in re-establishing air service,” he said, adding that the service will be similar to the flights Harbor Air once ran. In 2001, the Gig-Harbor based company ran into financial trouble and stopped operating.

Harbor Air lost ownership of the airport in a foreclosure process, but it’s still not clear who controls the airport as litigation continues.

Brooks said he’s worked out a tentative arrangement with the parties involved in the dispute over ownership to operate out of the airport.

“It’s in everyone’s best interest,” he said, “that the airport becomes actively used.”

Kenmore Air was been known for float planes for the last 50 years. But Brooks said Kenmore started a wheel-plane division last year. The airline used to land float planes at the Oak Harbor marina, but stopped service because there wasn’t enough business.

If plans work out, Kenmore Air will fly nine-passenger, turbo-prop Cessna Caravan airplanes from Oak Harbor. The planes will land at Boeing field, where passengers can pick up a free, 12-minute van shuttle to Sea-Tac airport. Brooks said the entire journey from Oak Harbor to Sea-Tac will take passengers about 45 minutes.

Kenmore currently flies to the San Juan islands, Friday Harbor and Port Angeles.

Joel Eisenberg, a Seattle resident, is the man behind Air International, a limited-liability corporation that purchased the debt on the Oak Harbor airport. He believes he will own the airport outright when the litigation is finally settled in court.

Yet Eisenberg said he’s not sure when the court battles will end. “My lawyer said it will be over in a few months, but I’ve heard that before,” he said.

San Juan Airlines tried to start up regular commercial flights out of the small Oak Harbor airport several years ago, but its intentions were thwarted by uncertainly over ownership.

Eisenberg said he’s excited about Kenmore Air’s plans for Oak Harbor’s airport.

“I’m totally impressed by the operation,” he said.