Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport

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The Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (IATA: AZA, ICAO: KIWA ) is a private airport and a former Air Force base in the southeast in the U.S. state of Arizona near Mesa. By 2007, the airport was known as Williams Gateway Airport (short: WGA ) according to the local airport hero Charles Linton Williams.

History

The airport was built in 1941 as a military airfield and put into operation in 1942. He served mainly to train pilots for missions in World War II and was at that time still under the name of Williams Air Base, later operated Williams Air Force Base. This remained so until well after the end of the war 1945. Was not until 1991, when the operating costs for the government at that time no longer appeared viable, the airport was approved for privatization. In the 52 years of military use over 26,500 men and women were trained as pilots. Therefore, the reclassification made ​​sense, since the neighboring airports were overloaded and in need of a alternative had to be created. Then the airfield and airstrips were built until 1993, and in 1994 celebrated its grand opening of the civilian airport.

Today

The airport continued to expand, he moved, due to the ideal weather conditions, some large civilian flight schools who founded branches in its vicinity. But led to its present workload, especially the 2004 closed -share contracts with Ryan International Airlines (not to be confused with the European Ryanair).

Since 2007 the airport is named Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

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