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Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) north of the central business district of Bullhead City, in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.〔 It is owned by Mohave County.〔 The airport is across the Colorado River and one block away from Laughlin, Nevada. Many of the rooms at Laughlin's casino-hotels offer a view of the airport. It was named ''2011 Airport of the Year'' by the Arizona Department of Transportation. This facility is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, which categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).〔 〕 As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 122,192 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 107,595 enplanements in 2009, and 121,468 in 2010.〔 〕 == History== In 1941 land was purchased from the state of Arizona for construction of Davis Dam power plant that was initiated by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1942. In 1943 the airport is established on Bureau of Land Management property about two miles south of the Davis Dam power plant construction site. The employees of the Davis Dam project graded and used the airport. In 1953 the dam was completed and residential development commenced in Bullhead City, Lake Mohave and Mohave Valley areas. Mohave County leases the Bullhead City Airport from BLM in 1968 and in 1971 the county subleases a portion of the Bullhead Airport to Bullhead Airport Inc which was a private enterprise which provided Fixed Based Operation Services (FBO). In 1972 ADOT provided a $15,000 grant to aid in an airport improvement project for runway relocation, drainage, marking, lighting and fencing and in 1979 a new 25-year lease for the entire 135 acre airport is negotiated by the county with the newly formed Mohave County Airport Authority. In 1980 Bullhead Airport Inc. sublease is renegotiated and ADOT provides $91,000 to overlay the old aircraft parking apron and extend it to the north. The FBO provided $10,000 to make other facility improvements. In 1983 BLM transfers airport property to the state of Arizona and in 1986 the Arizona State Land Department sold property that included the airport parcel to Bullhead Airport Inc through public auction with two stipulations. Also In the 1980s It housed both Airwolf helicopters. The first being that the buyer would have to dedicate 433 acres to Mohave County for airport use and the buyer would need to complete a flood control project within two years of land purchase. In 1987 FAA and ADOT grants and entitlements are used to commence construction and Mohave County Airport Authority forms two executive committees, one for Kingman and one for Bullhead /Laughlin. Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport was the "Bullhead City Airport" until the 1990s, when such airlines as Air Laughlin, Vanguard Airlines, Viscount Air Services and others offered Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 flights from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Reno Air McDonnell Douglas MD-80s flew there briefly in 1995 and 1996 from San Jose International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. Most of this air service would be accompanied by hotel packages. For a short time USAir Express DH-8s flew to Los Angeles International Airport. FedEx Express became the airport's main cargo airline during that decade. In 2002 Sun Country decided to start service to Bullhead City from Minneapolis. The airline ultimately decided to make Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport a hub for the American Southwestern region. In 2004 Ryan International Airlines returned the jet services from the Phoenix area, beginning to fly to Bullhead City from Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, using MD-82 airplanes. There was service on Western Express Air to Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (Arizona) and Riverside Municipal Airport (California) but that ended when that airline ceased operations at the end of May 2007.〔(Western Air Express (official site) )〕 In 2008 the airport got a multimillion-dollar expansion and a heightened security system. In the same year, the largest aircraft to visit the airport, a Boeing 747-SP, landed on the recently expanded runway. In March 2010 the airport hosted "Legends Over the Colorado", an air show with additional displays of an original B-17 from World War II. The plane is part of the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, a Texas-based nonprofit organization that has fully restored the B-17, ''Sentimental Journey''. Also on display was a T-6 Texan and 4 other warbirds. More than 115,000 people flew in to Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport on casino-sponsored chartered flights in 2010, however, no larger established commercial airlines are currently utilizing the Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport. On April 9–10, 2011, Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport held the second annual "Legends Over The Colorado". The main attraction was "FIFI", the only flying B-29 in the world along with two P-51 Mustangs, a Japanese Zero, and several other World War II era warbirds. On July 20, 2011 marked the opening of the new baggage claim building connected to the main 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「Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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