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Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport is a public airport six miles (10 km) east of downtown Amarillo, in Potter and Randall Counties, Texas, United States.〔 The airport was renamed in 2003 after NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Rick Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster in February of that year. == History == Harold English opened English Field in 1929. That year Transcontinental & Western Air (the forerunner to TWA) started airline service through Amarillo. Later Braniff International, Continental Airlines and Trans-Texas Airways (later Texas International) operated flights to Lubbock and Dallas. Trans World Airlines operated flights to Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles (a nonstop 727 to LAX started in 1967). Braniff operated Lockheed Electras to Denver and Oklahoma City. Frontier Airlines operated Convair 580s to Denver and Memphis with intermediate stops in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The April 1957 OAG shows 23 weekday departures: 11 Braniff, 8 TWA, 2 Central and 2 Continental. The first scheduled jets into Amarillo were on TWA in 1964. In 1952 the name changed to Amarillo Air Terminal. After the adjacent Amarillo Air Force Base was deactivated in 1968 a portion became part of Amarillo Air Terminal. The primary instrument runway, built for the USAF Strategic Air Command base, at 13,502 feet (4,115 m) is among the longest commercial runways in the United States and is still used for military training. During the mid-1970s the airport was used for jet training by (then) West German national airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG.〔(Amarillo Voices: Journal is worth much more than a thousand words )〕 In 1976 the airport changed its name to Amarillo International Airport upon the opening of a U.S. Customs facility, which has since been closed. Southwest Airlines initiated service to Amarillo in 1978〔(TSHA Online - Texas State Historical Association )〕 with non-stop service to Dallas-Love Field. The original English Field terminal building was converted in 1997 to a museum maintained by the Texas Aviation Historical Society. This museum lost its lease with the City of Amarillo and is now located in buildings southeast of the main runway, formally known as Attebury Grain. The name of the original airfield is memorialized in the English Fieldhouse, a local restaurant located adjacent to the general aviation terminal. In 2003 the airport terminal building was rededicated to NASA astronaut Rick Husband, the commander of mission STS-107 of the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' and an Amarillo native. Husband and his crew were killed when the ''Columbia'' disintegrated upon re-entry on February 1, 2003. The terminal building underwent a $52.2 million renovation that was designed by the firms Reynolds, Smith & Hills and Shiver Megert and Associates and completed in 2011.〔(Amarillo Int'l Unveils Clearly Upgraded Terminal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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