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Boise Airport (Boise Air Terminal or Gowen Field)〔 is a joint civil-military airport three miles south of Boise in Ada County, Idaho.〔 The airport is operated by the city of Boise Department of Aviation and is overseen by an Airport Commission. Boise is a landing rights airfield requiring international general aviation flights to receive permission from a Customs and Border Protection officer before landing. In addition to being a commercial and general aviation airport, Boise is used by the Idaho Air National Guard on the Gowen Field Air National Guard Base portion of the airport. The National Interagency Fire Center is based in the city of Boise and the Boise Airport is used for logistical support. The United States Forest Service also uses Boise Airport as a base for aerial firefighting air tankers during the wildfire season. Boise Airport had 1,307,505 enplaned passengers in 2012, a reduction from 1,395,554 passengers in 2011. BOI ranked 78th in the nation in enplanements for 2012.〔http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/CY12CommercialServiceEnplanements.pdf〕 ==History== In 1926 the first municipal airport in Boise named Booth Field was built on a gravel bed where the Boise State University campus now stands. The first commercial airmail flight in the United States passed through this airfield on April 26, 1926, carried by Varney Airlines. Varney Airlines began operating out of Boise in 1933, later merging with National Air Transport to become United Airlines. With United Airlines able to trace its roots to Varney, United is recognized as the airline that has operated the longest out of Boise, 83 years as of 2009. United Airlines has contracted out its airport operation to SkyWest and no longer has any active employees in the State of Idaho. This airfield also played host to Charles Lindbergh's ''Spirit of St. Louis'' on September 4, 1927.〔 The current airport has its origins in 1936 when Boise began buying and leasing land for the airport. By 1938 Boise had the longest runway in the United States, . The steel hangar for Varney Airlines was moved to the present field in 1939. As aircraft grew the hangar was no longer big enough and was converted into a passenger terminal. It was part of the modern terminal facility until the completion of a new terminal in 2004. During World War II the Army Air Corps, later Army Air Forces, leased the field for use as a training base for B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bomber crews. More than 6,000 men were stationed there during the war.〔 The field was named Gowen Field in 1941 on July 23, after 1st Lt. Paul R. Gowen (1909–1938).〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Find a Grave )〕 Born and raised in Caldwell, he attended the University of Idaho for two years, then obtained an appointment to West Point in 1929, and graduated ninth in his class in 1933.〔 While piloting a twin-engine B-10 bomber in the Army Air Corps, Gowen was killed instantly in a crash in Panama in July 1938.〔 The right engine failed shortly after take-off from Albrook Field, near Panama City. The other two crew members, navigator and radio operator, survived and crawled from the wreckage with burns.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=rootsweb.ancestry.com )〕 After the war the part of the field used by the Army Air Forces was returned to the city.〔 The Idaho Air National Guard began leasing the airfield after the war, and still does.〔 Between 2001 and 2005 Boise Airport was remodeled. The airport now has a new terminal and an elevated roadway for departures. There were two phases in building the new terminal. Phase 1 considered amenities such as baggage claim, lobby, and food and beverage concession, which were completed in 2003. Phase 2 dealt with security checkpoints and a new concourse (Concourse C) and the remodeling of Concourse B, which were completed in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.iflyboise.com/airport-guide/about-the-airport/history-of-boi/ )〕 The Boise Airport Passenger Terminal designed by CSHQA is a three-story, steel-framed state-of-the-art aviation facility. Curvilinear, steel trusses create the undulating ceiling plane of the ticket lobby and define the signature profile of the building. The terminal has garnered national attention for the beauty of its design and is considered a prototypical post 9/11 facility.〔(CSHQA Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Boise Idaho ). Cshqa.com.〕 The Boise Airport was fourth in passenger satisfaction in the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Global Airport Satisfaction Index Study.〔 〕 The Boise Airport was a hub for Horizon Air from the late 1980s to the early 2000s with over 50 flights to 15 destinations at its peak, but was scaled down post 9/11. It currently is a minor focus city. 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「Boise Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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