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Harrisburg International Airport is a public airport in Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania,〔"(Lower Swatara township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania )." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on March 2, 2010.〕 nine miles (15 km) southeast of Harrisburg. It is owned by the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority.〔 The airport code MDT refers to Middletown, a suburb of Harrisburg. Planes landing at MDT from the south are often routed near Three Mile Island a few miles from the airport. The airport, frequently referred to as HIA, is the primary commercial airport in South Central Pennsylvania and is the third-busiest airport in Pennsylvania for passenger enplanements and cargo shipments behind Philadelphia International Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport. ==History== Harrisburg International Airport has been serving south-central Pennsylvania for over 100 years.〔(Harrisburg International Airport History )〕 Beginning in 1898, the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army was stationed here. This was followed by the first military airplanes landing in 1918 at what had become Olmsted Field of the fledgling U.S. Army Air Service. The Middletown Air Depot (later Middletown Air Materiel Area) at Olmsted provided logistical and maintenance support of military aircraft until it closed in 1969. In 1968 airline flights moved from Capital City Airport to Harrisburg International Airport at the former Air Force Base. Architect William Pereira designed the new terminals, completed in 1973. In 1998 the Commonwealth transferred ownership to the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA). The Authority board consists of community volunteers appointed to staggered, five-year terms by the elected officials from Cumberland, Dauphin, and York counties, the cities of Harrisburg and York, and Fairview and Lower Swatara townships. About 1,400 people work in the system of Harrisburg International Airport.〔(Airport Authority History ) SARAA, accessed February 14, 2010.〕 A new 360,000 square-foot terminal was completed in 2004. It cost $120 million and was designed by The Sheward Partnership.〔(The Sheward Partnership – Harrisburg International Airport )〕 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「Harrisburg International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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