H
agerstown Regional
Airport, Hagerstown,
Maryland
(IATA: HGR[2], ICAO: KHGR,
FAA LID: HGR), also known
as Richard A. Henson Field,
is a county-owned publicuse airport in Washington
County, Maryland, located
four nautical miles north of
the central business district of
Hagerstown, Maryland. The
National Plan of I ntegrated
Airport Systems for 2011–2015
categorized it as a general
aviation airport based on 2008
enplanements (the commercial
service category requires at
least 2,500 per year). Cape
Air served Hagerstown
Regional with four flights
daily on Cessna 402 aircraft
to Baltimore/Washington
International Thurgood Marshall
Airport in Baltimore. These
flights are were subsidized
by the Essential Air Service
federal program. This service
ended in November 2012
and was replaced by EAS-
subsidized service by Sun Air
International to Washington
Dulles International Airport
in Washington, D.C. Rider
Jet Center is the field FBO
and offers dining at Runways
Restaurant, but it is not directly
accessible from the passenger
terminal. The FBO is located
mid-field, north of rwy 9/27.
Hagerstown is the chief
commercial and industrial
hub for a greater Tri-State
Area that includes much of
Western Maryland as well as
significant portions of South
Central Pennsylvania and the
Eastern Panhandle of West
Virginia. Hagerstown has
often been referred to as, and
is nicknamed, the Hub City.
Hagerstown’s strategic location
at the border between the
North and the South made the
city a primary staging area and
supply center for four major
campaigns during the Civil
War.
Hagerstown’s first aircraft
production came in WWI
with the Maryland Pressed
Steel Company building the
Bellanca CD biplane in hopes
of securing government
contracts. From 1931 to 1984,
Fairchild Aircraft was based
in Hagerstown and was by
far the area’s most prominent
employer. The importance
of the company to the city
and the country as a whole
earned Hagerstown its former
nickname “Home of the Flying
Boxcar.”. The Hagerstown
Aviation Museum shows many
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of these original aircraft. Among
the ones on display are: 1939
F24/UC-61C, 1945 C-82A,
1943 PT-19A, and the 1953
C-119. The museum is located
near Hagerstown Regional
Airport in the airport’s former
terminal. Hagerstown is also
the birthplace of Salisbury,
Maryland-based Piedmont
Airlines which started out
as Henson Aviation. It was
founded by Richard A. Henson
in 1931. Today, Hagerstown
Regional Airport-Richard A.
Henson Field is named as such
in honor of the airlines’ founder.
I
thaca Tompkins Regional
Airport, Ithaca, New York
(IATA: ITH, ICAO: KITH,
FAA LID: ITH) is a county
owned airport three miles
northeast of Ithaca, the county
seat and only city in Tompkins
County, New York.[1] The
National Plan of Integrated
Airport Systems for 2011–2015
categorized it as a primary
commercial service facility.[4]
According to Federal Aviation
Administration records, the
airport had 86,240 passenger
enplanements in 2015.
Ithaca Regional is serviced
by Delta Connection
(Bombardier CRJ200 –
destination city Detroit),
American Eagle (Bombardier
Dash 8 – destination city
Philadelphia) and United
Express (Bombardier Dash 8 –
The general aviation community
is supported by the full service
Taughannock Aviation FBO.
Ithaca is a city in the Southern
Tier-Finger Lakes region of
New York state. Ithaca is
home to Cornell University,
an Ivy League school of over
20,000 students, most of whom
study at its local campus.
Ithaca College is located just
south of the city in the Town
of Ithaca, adding to the area’s
“college town” atmosphere.
Nearby is Tompkins Cortland
Community College (TC3).
These three colleges bring
tens of thousands of students
who increase Ithaca’s seasonal
population during the school
year.
Ithaca is noted for its annual
community celebration, The
Ithaca Festival. The Constance
Saltonstall Foundation for
the Arts provides grants and
summer fellowships at the
Saltonstall Arts Colony for New
York State artists and writers.
Ithaca also hosts one of the
largest used-book sales in the
United States.
The city and town also sponsor
The Apple Festival in the fall,
the Chili Fest in February, the
Finger Lakes International
Dragon Boat Festival in July;
Porch Fest in late September,
and the Ithaca Brew Fest in
Stewart Park in September
D
elaware Coastal
Airport, Sussex County,
Delaware
(IATA: GED, ICAO: KGED,
FAA LID: GED) is a public
use airport in Sussex County,
Delaware. The airport is
known locally by various
unofficial names, including
County Airport and, especially,
Georgetown Airport In midJune 2015, the Sussex County
Council voted to rename the
airport from Sussex County
Airport to Delaware Coastal
Airport. The vote was since
passed and the airport is now
officially known as Delaware
Coastal Airport. The airport is
principally a general aviation
use airport with over 90% of
total airplane operations being
GA. Georgetown Air Services
is a full serve FBO on the
field. There is no agreement
on which European group was
the first to settle in Sussex
County. Historians believe that,
in the early years of exploration
from 1593 to 1630, Spanish
or Portuguese explorers were
likely the first Europeans to see
the Delaware River and the
lands of present-day Sussex
County.
On an expedition for the Dutch
West India Company, Henry
Hudson recorded discovery in
1609 of what was later named
the Delaware River. Attempting
to following him, Samuel Argall,
an English explorer, was blown
off course in 1610 and landed
in a strange bay which he
named after the Governor of
Virginia, Thomas West, Lord
De La Warr.
A
rnold Palmer Regional
Airport, Latrobe,
Pennsylvania
(IATA: LBE[2], ICAO: KLBE,
FAA LID: LBE) is a public
airport two miles southwest
of Latrobe and about 33
miles southeast of Pittsburgh,
in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. In February
2011 Spirit Airlines launched
seasonal service to Fort
Lauderdale and Myrtle Beach.
In January 2012, Spirit
announced they would start
service to Orlando on May 17.
The airline has incrementally
grown passenger traffic and
destinations every year since.
Spirit now serves 5 destinations
from Arnold Palmer Regional
Airport, and has increased
passenger traffic from 6,978
in 2010, to 355,910 in 2015.
General aviation is supported
by two full service FBOs: Vee
Neal Aviation and LJ Aviation.
The city population was 8,338
as of the 2010 census (9,265
in 1990). It is located near
Pennsylvania’s scenic Chestnut
Ridge. Among its claims to
fame, Latrobe is the home of
Saint Vincent Archabbey , the
Latrobe Brewery (the original
brewer of Rolling Rock beer),
Saint Vincent College and
golfer Arnold Palmer. It was
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