Quad City International Airport

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The Quad City International Airport is the airport of Moline, a city in the U.S. state of Illinois. He served the Quad Cities region, which includes cities in neighboring Iowa.

History

Franing Field, located at the site of today's airport in 1919 was one of the stops in an airplane race from coast to coast. In May 1926, National Air Transport opened a regular air mail connection on the route Chicago - Dallas and used Franing Field for one of the required stopovers. 1927 Boeing Air Transport took over Moline connections between Chicago and San Francisco.

As the world economic crisis the privately operated airfield caused problems for the city bought Moline 1935 Franing Field and built a new reception building and hangars $ 165,000 of this necessary costs carried the city, $ 365,000 (equivalent to a value of about 6 million dollars), the Federal Government under the Works Projects Administration program. Construction was the second- most expensive WPA project in Illinois. In 1939 there were five daily scheduled flights.

After the entry of the United States into the Second World War in 1941, the airfield was used for pilot training.

1946 was the airport an instrument landing system that allowed the use even in poor weather conditions. 1947 voted the inhabitants of the rock Iceland County for buying the airport and to create the Metropolitan Airport Authority of Rock Iceland County, Illinois for the administration. By 1954, then a new station building was built and extended one of the start and runways. At the same time, the airport also received its present name, the main users were the airlines United Airlines and Ozark Air Lines.

The station building was expanded in 1961 and 1968 and 1985 replaced by a new building, which in turn was expanded in 2001 to its present dimensions.

Operation

At the Quad City International Airport there are scheduled flights to destinations within the United States.