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Casper–Natrona County International Airport is northwest of Casper, in Natrona County, Wyoming.〔 Before December 19, 2007 the airport was called Natrona County International Airport. Scheduled passenger service is offered by SkyWest Airlines operating as Delta Connection on behalf of Delta Air Lines and also as United Express on behalf of United Airlines. Trans States Airlines operates as United Express on behalf of United Airlines as well. Both of these regional airlines operate regional jet aircraft into Casper. Allegiant Air also serves the airport and operates mainline jet aircraft. Charter flights (known as "casino or gamblers' flights") are occasionally flown to Laughlin or Wendover, Nevada. Located near the airport is the NCIA Business Park, which houses a World War II museum and over 35 business ranging from manufacturing to aviation. ==History== Casper had airline flights in the 1930s at Wardwell Field, north of town at . The airport started as the Casper Army Airfield in September 1942,〔(History - Casper Army Air Field )〕 consisting of four asphalt hard surfaced runways - N/S, NE/SW, E/W, NW/SE - varying in length between 8900' and 8600'. ) Casper AAF was assigned to Second Air Force as a heavy bomber (B-17; B-24) replacement training unit, with the 331st Bombardment Group being the training unit with four squadrons (461st, 462d, 463d and 464th Bombardment) training of personnel in heavy bomber operations. The 331st Combat Crew Training School provided ground instruction. Once personnel completed the training course, they were sent to various combat units overseas as replacement personnel. The 331st was converted to a Very Heavy (B-29) group in July 1944 and began training for deployment to Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. The 211th Army Air Force Base Unit took control of the airfield. Casper AAF became part of Air Transport Command as a transit station for WASP pilots ferrying combat aircraft across the United States. The airfield was inactivated in March 1945, and on 30 September 1945 was turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers as surplus. The War Assets Administration turned the airfield over to civil control in the late 1940s, and in 1949 it became ''Natrona County Municipal Airport'', in what is now Bar Nunn: the streets were the runways. 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「Casper–Natrona County International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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