KFWA Fort Wayne International
Airport Fort Wayne, IN
Fort Wayne International Airport (IATA: FWA, ICAO: KFWA)
is eight miles southwest of Fort
Wayne, in Allen County, Indiana.
The airport has one terminal, the
Lieutenant Paul Baer Terminal.
Passenger flights reach seven
airline hubs of Atlanta, Chicago,
Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and
Newark Liberty International Airport(beginning September 2016)
along with flights to Orlando, Punta Gorda (serving Fort Myers and
Sarasota), Tampa, Phoenix, and
seasonal service to Myrtle Beach.
Together, flights from the airport
to these twelve cities serve over
710,000 combined arriving and
departing passengers per year.
Fort Wayne International Airport
has eight shared-use gates. Any
gate can be used by any airline
serving the airport at any time
with the airport’s shared-use gate
system. Gates 1 through 4 are
ground-level on the first floor
of the terminal, whereas Gates 5
through 8 are on the second floor
of the terminal and board via
jetways. A half-height jetway was
added to Gate 4 in 2015, while
Gate 2 has a Commute-a-Walk
covered walkway. Gates 1 and 3
are currently uncovered. As Gates
5 through 8 were built at a time
when the airport had mainline
service, these gates can handle
aircraft ranging in size from the
Canadair Regional Jet family used
by Delta, American, and United to
the McDonnell Douglas MD-80,
Boeing 757, and Airbus A320 family aircraft used by Allegiant.
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KLUK Cincinnati Municipal
Airport-Lunken Field Cincinnati,
Ohio
The airport mostly serves private
aircraft and the fleets of local corporations. Also, the airport serves
a limited amount of commercial
flights and is the second largest
airport serving Cincinnati after
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
International Airport. It is known
as Lunken Airport or Lunken
Field, after Eshelby Lunken. The
American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA) officially
designated Lunken Field as a historic aerospace site on September
14, 2013.
Lunken Field, now also known
as Cincinnati Municipal Lunken
Airport, opened in 1925 on ground
purchased from the Cincinnati
Polo Club. The nation’s largest
municipal airport at the time, it
attracted several aerospace enterprises, starting with early aviator J.
Richard “Dixie” Davis, who established his barnstorming enterprise
there in 1925. In 1928, several
other firms established enterprises
at the field – each making history.
The Lunken family, led by patriarch Eshelby Lunken, for whom
the field is named, established
the Aeronautical Corporation of
America (Aeronca) at the site, and
manufactured their C-2 Aeronca
ultralight monoplane design.
In addition, the Embry-Riddle
Company established a hub of
their business at Lunken Field, for
passenger travel and mail services.
The Embry-Riddle Company location also became the U.S. government’s first approved flight school.
Embry-Riddle went on to form
American Airways, which became
American Airlines.
KAZO Kalamazoo/Battle Creek
International Airport Kalamazoo,
Michigan
Plans for an airport in Kalamazoo
began in 1925. In May 1926 the
City of Kalamazoo purchased 383
acres near Portage and Kilgore
roads and an airport opened. The
first regular air mail service started
in July 1928. In February 1929 the
field was licensed as the first municipal airport in Michigan.
The airport is located approximately 3 miles southeast of Kalamazoo
and 20 miles west of the city of
Battle Creek.
Beginning in December 2015,
United Airlines began serving
Kalamazoo from the airline’s Chicago hub under its United Express
brand
KEVV Evansville Regional Airport
Evansville, Indiana
Built in 1928 on 260 acres of land
along U.S. Highway 41 and funded
by a city bond issue, the original airport had a small terminal,
weather bureau, hangar, runways,
boundary lights, grading, and
drainage.
The original terminal was replaced
in 1988 with the new William H.
Dress Terminal, designed with
140,000 square feet and ten gates.
The first jet at the Evansville airport landed in September 1964, a
chartered 727 carrying presidential
candidate Barry Goldwater.
In the 2010s, the airport began to
see passenger growth. In response
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