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General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport is a civil/military public airport five miles west of Peoria, in Peoria County, Illinois.〔 The airport is on the northwest edge of Bartonville, near Bellevue. It is owned by the Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria,〔 which often refers to it as Peoria International Airport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Contact Information )〕 It was formerly the Greater Peoria Regional Airport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Greater Peoria Regional Airport )〕 This airport is in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which called it a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).〔 〕 As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 278,426 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 242,142 in 2009 and 249,595 in 2010.〔 〕 ==History== On May 19, 1932 the citizens of Peoria voted to have an airport. On 195 acres (0.8 km²), American Airways (now American Airlines) and Chicago and Southern Airlines brought in airmail and passenger service on 4 shale-surfaced runways. The land was purchased by 261 Peoria businessmen who formed the Peoria Airport, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brief History of the Airport )〕 It was turned over to the Peoria Park District in 1937, and then to newly formed The Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria in 1950. Airport diagram for (1956 ) On April 25, 2007 the Greater Peoria Airport Authority announced a new 9 gate terminal will be built and the old terminal demolished. On October 10, 2008 the airport was renamed "General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport" during a groundbreaking ceremony attended by Ross Perot, friend of the late Wayne A. Downing.〔 The new terminal, designed by Reynolds, Smith & Hills and built by Turner Construction, opened on April 27, 2011. As of August 24, 2012 the airport was in negotiations for international flights using a temporary customs facility. 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「General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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