By Fred Shepherd
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BDL Bradley International
Airport Windsor Locks, CT
Bradley International Airport
(IATA: BDL, ICAO: KBDL, FAA
LID: BDL) is a civil/military
airport in Windsor Locks,
Connecticut, in Hartford County,
Connecticut. The airport is about
halfway between Hartford and
Springfield. It is Connecticut’s
busiest commercial airport with
350 daily operations and the
second-busiest airport in New
England after Boston’s Logan
International Airport
The four largest carriers at
Bradley International Airport
are Southwest Airlines, Delta Air
Lines, JetBlue, and American
Airlines with market shares
of 28%, 19%, 15%, and 14%,
respectively.
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ACK Nantucket Memorial
Airport Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Memorial Airport
(IATA: ACK, ICAO: KACK,
FAA LID: ACK) is a public
airport on the south side of the
island of Nantucket in the state
of Massachusetts. The airport
is located three miles (5 km)
southeast of the town. It is the
second-busiest airport in the
state, after Logan International
Airport. The airport apron for
commercial aircraft has eight
parking stands for Cessna 402
aircraft mainly operated by Cape
Air and Nantucket Airlines and to
a lesser extent from Island Airlines.
These parking locations are also
utilized by Island Airlines’ Cessna
208 Caravan aircraft, which are
beginning to replace the airline’s
Cessna 402s. There are also four
larger parking stands for the
JetBlue E190, US Airways CRJ200, Delta CRJ-200 and United
Dash 8 Q-200 aircraft. More stands
are available if needed. Most of
the parking is reserved for general
aviation aircraft
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BTV Burlington International
Airport Burlington, VT
Burlington International Airport
(IATA: BTV, ICAO: KBTV, FAA
LID: BTV) is a joint-use civilmilitary airport in Chittenden
County, Vermont. The airport is
located in South Burlington, three
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nautical miles east of the central
business district of Burlington. The
airport serves as the base of the
Vermont Air National Guard and
an Army Aviation Support Facility
(AASF) of the Vermont Army
National Guard.
On May 22, 1934, Amelia Earhart
was presented with the keys to the
city of Burlington at this airport.
Burlington International Airport
serves its metropolitan area, which
contained over 206,000 residents
as of 2006 U.S. Census estimates.
Due to the relatively small size
of the market, airlines mostly
fly regional airliners on their
Burlington routes. Among these
are Bombardier CRJ-200, CRJ700, and CRJ-900 and Embraer
ERJ-145 and ERJ-170 regional
jets operated by most of the major
carriers as well as turboprop
powered Bombardier Q400 aircraft
flown seasonally by Porter Airlines.
JetBlue Airways,United Airlines,
and Delta Air Lines notably fly
some of the only daily flights
using mainline aircraft. Currently
the largest scheduled passenger
planes to fly out of Burlington
are Boeing 737-700s, Airbus
A319s, and Airbus A320s flown
by United Airlines, McDonnellDouglas MD-80s, Airbus A319s,
and Airbus A320s flown seasonally
by Delta Air Lines and yearround by Allegiant Airlines, and
Embraer E-190s flown year-round
by JetBlue. Orlando, Florida is the
farthest destination served by any
airline out of BTV.
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PVD Theodore Francis Green
Memorial State Airport
Providence, RI
T. F. Green Airport (IATA: PVD,
ICAO: KPVD, FAALID: PVD)
is a public international airport
in Warwick, six miles south of
Providence, in Kent County, Rhode
Island. Opened in 1931, the airport
was named for former Rhode
Island governor and longtime
senator Theodore F. Green. Rebuilt
in 1996, the renovated main
terminal was named for former
Rhode Island governor Bruce
Sundlun. It was the first stateowned airport in the United States.
T. F. Green is considered a reliever
airport to Logan International
Airport in Boston.
T. F. Green Airport was dedicated
on September 27, 1931, as
Hillsgrove State Airport, drawing
what was, at that time, the largest
crowd that had attended a public
function in the country. A new
terminal opened in the 1990s.
it was rebuilt, expanding to 18
gates, and in 1997 four gates were
added. Airlines added flights to
T. F. Green Airport, including
Air Canada, Southwest, SATA
International (which operated
flights to the Azores using an
A310-300), and Spirit Airlines.
After the September 11th attacks,
T. F. Green Airport, like most
airports in the United States,
faced a decrease in passengers
and fewer flights from American
Airlines (which once flew to
Chicago O’Hare and Dallas-Fort
Worth Airport), Spirit, and SATA.
Unti l the 2015 finalization of
the merger between American
Airlines and US Airways, creating
one single licensed carrier under
the American Airlines name, the
Providence Metropolitan Area
was the largest MSA in the United
States not served by American
Airlines or any of its subsidiaries.
T. F. Green was visited by Air Force
One, a Boeing 747 on October
25, 2010, a Concorde operated
by British Airways on June 13,
1988, and an Airbus A340 flown
by Iberia Airlines on June 1, 2011,
which transported the Men’s
Spanish National Soccer Team
for their match against the U.S.
National Team on June 4, 2011, at
Gillette Stadium in Foxborough,
Massachusetts. T. F. Green was
visited by Air Force One again on
October 31, 2014
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angor International Airport
Bangor, ME
Bangor International Airport
(IATA: BGR, ICAO: KBGR) is a
joint civil-military public airport
on the west side of the city of
Bangor, in Penobscot County,
Maine. The airport has a single
runway measuring 11,439 by 200
ft. Formerly a military installation
known as Dow Air Force Base,
Bangor International Airport
remains home to the 101st Air
Refueling Wing of the Maine Air
National Guard, although most
of the Air Force’s aircraft and
personnel left in the late 1960s.
The airport owes its prosperity to
its location on major air corridors
between Europe and the East Coast
of the United States.
One of three international airports
in the state, it serves the residents
of central, eastern, and northern
Maine as well as parts of Canada.
It was designated by NASA as
an emergency landing location
for the Space Shuttle. Bangor
International Airport began as
Godfrey Field in 1921, on land
owned by local attorney Edward
Rawson Godfrey (1877–1958). On
Aug. 19, 1923, 15 Martin Bombers
and 11 DeHaviland Scout Planes
under the command of Gen. Billy
Mitchell — virtually the entire U.S.
Army Air Corps — landed there
on a practice mission.
Regular air passenger service to
Portland and Boston was begun in
1931 by Boston-Maine Airways,
owned by the Boston and Maine
and Bangor and Aroostook
railroads and under contract
to Pan American, which was
interested in the airport as a stop
on its planned intercontinental air
route between the U.S. and Europe.
Amelia Earhart was a celebrity
pilot on some of the earliest flights
for Boston-Maine Airways in the
1930s. The airport was equipped
with floodlights for night flights
as early as 1937. In 1940, Boston-
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