Southwest Michigan Regional Airport
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The Southwest Michigan Regional Airport is a regional airport in the southwest of the state of Michigan in the United States. He is one of the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, which are three and six kilometers from the airport. The nearest international airport is the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago at a distance of about 120 kilometers. The Southwest Michigan Regional Airport was formerly operated by Mesaba Airlines of which offered several flights to the Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, the hub of Northwest Airlines daily. Today it is used only by private pilots and corporate pilots.
It consists of several buildings such as hangars and administrative buildings, three each 30 meters wide, paved start and runways with lengths of 762-1557 meters and a taxiway.
History
1939 bought the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph first 20 ha and 26 ha later made additional land from the Ross Carrier Company and opened on January 2, 1940 Ross Field. In 1944, the airport has been increased by another 103 ha and renamed Twin Cities Airport. To manage the Twin Cities Airport Directorate was established, are involved in the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph with 63 percent with 37 percent. For a cost of $ 50,000, the runway was 9/27 in 1950 extended from 1,310 m to its present length of 1,557 m. 1958 built the Whirlpool Corporation for U.S. $ 100,000 a hangar to their corporate jet - a Douglas DC-3 - to station there. 1959 gave the American aviation authority of the airline 's North Central Airlines, the license, the Southwest Michigan Regional Airport to fly to and from 1st January 1960 the company started to with Convair 340 aircraft between the Southwest Michigan Regional Airport and O'Hare International Airport commute. 1966 pulled passenger handling from the old terminal to the west of runway 18/36 in the new terminal east of the runway in order. In 1973, a new control tower and a new maintenance hangar with an area of 9000 m2 were built. On 1 June 1975, the first fire truck was put into operation. In December 1982, the North Central Airlines closed its doors and the Mississippi Valley Airlines took over the flight service to Chicago. 1984-1987, in turn, took over the Air Wisconsin Airlines Flight route. Received its current name of the airport in 1994. On 15 June 1995, the airline Mesaba Airlines took to flight operations to Detroit. In 1999, the terminal was named after H. B. Ross, to honor him for his contributions to the founding of the airport. On 31 August 2000, Mesaba Airlines ended flights to Detroit due to lack of profitability. Since then, the airport only to business fliers will be used. In 2001, the company Ross Warner and Randy Rue built each a 40x55 m large hangar.