Boise Airport

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The Boise Airport ( English Boise Airport ) is an airport in Boise, the capital of the U.S. state of Idaho.

History

In 1936, the city of Boise began to set up an airport at its present location, to release the first airport in 1926. From the previous location (now part of the campus of Boise State University) in 1939 also placed the steel hangar at the airline Varney Airlines and later converted into a reception building.

During World War II the United States Army Air Corps took over the airport; time, more than 6,000 men were stationed in Boise and were trained, among others, the models Boeing B -17 and Consolidated B -24. 1946, the airport was fully passed back to the town of Boise.

A new Empfangsbäude was $ 1.5 million ( $ 9.9 million entsprichtet in today's purchasing power ) built in 1969 and in 1979 (cost: $ 7,000,000; $ 23.4 million adjusted for inflation) and 2003 (cost: 108 extended $ 142.1 million adjusted for inflation); million dollars.

In 1968 the Boise Interagency Fire Center at Boise Airport was set up to coordinate the authorities in forest fires after further authorities were integrated, was created from this in 1993, the National Interagency Fire Center.

Operation

In 2009, 2.8 million passengers used the Boise Airport, is the largest airline Southwest Airlines. There are scheduled flights to destinations within the United States.