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Great Falls International Airport is a public/military airport in city limits three miles southwest of central Great Falls in Cascade County, Montana.〔 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport.〔 〕 Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 143,811 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 146,438 in 2009 and 155,204 in 2010.〔 〕 Great Falls International Airport is home to Great Falls Air National Guard Base and the Montana Air National Guard's 120th Airlift Wing (120 AW), the "Vigilantes." An Air National Guard unit operationally-gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC), the 120 AW transitioned from the F-15 Eagle to the C-130 Hercules in 2014, which it employs in medium airlift missions. Malmstrom Air Force Base, home of the 341st Missile Wing (341 MW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), is east of GTF, on the east side of Great Falls. With the transfer of its KC-135 aircraft in the 1990s, Malmstrom's runway is closed to fixed-wing traffic and open only to military helicopters, so Great Falls ANGB provides support for fixed-wing military aircraft visiting Malmstrom AFB. ==History== Great Falls International Airport was initiated in November 1928. The airport was leased by the U.S. War Department during World War II and became a home for the 7th Ferrying Command of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the war. During the war years, more than 7,500 bombers and fighter aircraft passed through Great Falls on their way to Europe and the Pacific. The U.S. Army acquired an additional and built many buildings and other facilities. The airport was under government control until June 1948 when the Department of Defense deeded it back to the City of Great Falls with the stipulation that the facility could revert to military control in a national emergency. The airport was released from this clause in 1961. In 1975 the terminal was replaced and all runways, aprons, and taxiways updated. With Federal Aviation Administration matching funds, the Great Falls International Airport Authority performs annual operations, maintenance, and capital improvements.〔http://www.gtfairport.com/Airport_Main.html〕 The award winning terminal was designed by Davidson-Kuhr Architects of Great Falls, Montana, with the lead architect being David S. Davidson. Great Falls has had airline flights since the 1930s. For at least part of each year 1977–1981 it saw scheduled Northwest DC-10s EWR-DTW-ORD-BIL-GTF-GEG-SEA and back. In 2011 the airport recorded the most boardings (172,415) in its history.〔(Johnson, Peter. "Great Falls Airline Boardings Up." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' May 14, 2011. )〕 GTF was the fifth-busiest of the state's 15 major airports in 2011, behind Billings (407,960 enplanements), Bozeman (397,822), Missoula (292,530), and Kalispell (179,034).〔(''Airport Boardings Study.'' Aeronautics Division. Montana Department of Transportation. January 2011, p. 2-7. ) Accessed May 15, 2011.〕 In early 2012 Frontier Airlines announced new flights to Great Falls from the Denver hub. Frontier is a low cost airline serving over fifty cities out of Denver. Frontier is among the lowest fare airlines in the U.S. measured by ticket price per average seat mile. The Airport Authority hopes to address rising ticket prices and a seasonal shortage of seats with the Frontier flights, however Frontier announced it was pulling out of Great Falls at the end of the year during its Denver hub restructuring in December 2014. AvMax, a Calgary-based large jet maintenance and repair business, opened a large operation at GTF in 2006; they employ 150. 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「Great Falls International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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