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Evansville Regional Airport is three miles north of Evansville, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by the Evansville/Vanderburgh Airport Authority.〔 Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 193,349 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 153,993 in 2009 and 169,967 in 2010.〔 〕 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 calls it a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). It has nearly 40 daily flights to and from airline hubs: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Detroit. ==History== Built in 1928 on 260 acres (1.1 km²) of land along U.S. Highway 41 and funded by a city bond issue, the original airport had a small terminal, weather bureau, hangar, runways, boundary lights, grading, and drainage. On June 16, 1930 the Evansville Municipal Airport was dedicated. The runways, 100 X 1,200 feet and four inches thick, cost $30,000. The first Evansville Airport Manager was Werner J. Genot, who took charge on December 16, 1930.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.evvairport.com/About_EVV/evvhistory.html#today )〕 Interstate Airlines stopped at Evansville on their Chicago-Atlanta and St. Louis-Louisville routes on October 19, 1928. Also in 1928, Capital Air Corporation started passenger flights through Evansville. The airport did not have an airline from February 1933 until 1940, when Eastern Airlines started two departures a day. Plans were made for expansion.〔 In 1950 a new terminal opened at a cost of $787,000. The Evansville City Council passed an ordinance to change the name of the airport to Dress Memorial Airport on October 11, 1950, and on October 29, 1950, the new terminal was dedicated. The airport property now covered 467 acres; 347 acres was used for aircraft operations and 120 acres was used for agriculture.〔 The first jet at the Evansville airport landed in September 1964, a chartered 727 carrying presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. The original terminal was replaced in 1988 with the new William H. Dress Terminal, designed by Hafer Associates〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Hafer Associates )〕 with 140,000 square feet (13,000 m²) and ten gates. In January 2012, the airport announced the adding of four new jet bridges. At the beginning of 2013, the jet bridges were installed. This allowed passengers to avoid having to exit the terminal and board the plane from the outside. It was the first time Evansville Regional Airport had new jet bridges, since US Air exited the Evansville market in the 1990s. A subsequent ribbon cutting took place at the airport on 17 January 2013. In the 2010s, the airport began to see passenger growth. In response to this, on August 20, 2014, Delta Air Lines upgraded to a Boeing 717 with daily service to Atlanta. Delta further upgraded to a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 at the beginning of summer in 2015, in addition with current 717 service, occasionally replacing the smaller aircraft on some flights. Also, on October 2, 2014, American Eagle began daily service to Charlotte using a Bombardier CRJ-200. On June 4, 2015, United Express began three daily flights to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago utilizing the Embraer ERJ-145. 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「Evansville Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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