Gerald R. Ford International Airport

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The Gerald R. Ford International Airport is the airport of the city of Grand Rapids in the U.S. state of Michigan.

History

In the summer of 1958, the Board of Supervisors of Kent County decided to replace the existing airfield with a new Airport in Cascade Township. After the flight of aircraft has already been transmitted on 23 November 1963 the new site was followed on 6 June 1964, the inauguration of the Kent County Airport, including a demonstration of the Blue Angels.

On January 27, 1977, the airport received an office of Customs and described himself as seitdam Kent County International Airport. The opened in 1982, at 10,000 ft ( 3,048 m) extended start and runway 08R/26L allows to dispatch also widebody aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and the airport used in 1984 for the first time more than one million passengers.

In the 1990s, the airport grew, in 1994 there were 150 daily flights to 13 destinations. In the same year extension of the second airstrip was completed, which was supplemented by an axis extending in a north-south direction railway in 1997. The goal was to renovate the existing railway 08R/26L during operation and to achieve greater flexibility.

In 1999, the new cargo center was built in the same year was awarded the airport in honor of former President Gerald Ford, who represented the congressional district for almost 25 years in the House of Representatives, its current name.

Operation

At the Gerald R. Ford International Airport there are direct flight connections to destinations within the United States and Canada. In 2010, accounted for about four-fifths of aircraft movements on general aviation and charter flights ( Air Taxi ) and the Military Aviation.