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La Crosse Regional Airport is a city owned, public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) northwest of the central business district of La Crosse, a city in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States.〔 Until August 2013, the airport was known as La Crosse Municipal Airport. It occupies the northern area of French Island, next to the Mississippi River. The airport serves the La Crosse Metropolitan Area, including the surrounding three-state area of west-central Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa. La Crosse's airport is the closest scheduled passenger service airport to the U.S. Army Fort McCoy military base near Sparta, Wisconsin. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport.〔 〕 As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 111,462 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 104,537 enplanements in 2009, and 109,962 in 2010.〔 〕 == History == The La Crosse Airport can accommodate the largest aircraft in service today. One of the largest passenger jets, the Boeing 747 Air Force One (AF1), has made overnight trips to this airport with every U.S. President for the last 20 years. In 1998, President Bill Clinton flew to La Crosse in AF1 Boeing 707 (VC-137C SAM 260000. This was the last time a US President flew on this plane, as it was then retired to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. One of the world's largest cargo jets, a Russian Antonov An-124, has flown to the La Crosse airport when heavy transport was needed for the international flight of local businesses. The US military C-5A cargo and KC-10 Extender cargo/refueling jumbo jets have been at the annual summer Deke Slayton Airshow (area astronaut), Airfest at the airport, along with vintage and modern military and private planes. The show has also featured the US Navy Blue Angels and the US Air Force Thunderbirds. In the past, Sun Country Airlines has flown DC-10 (380 passenger seats) on charter flights from La Crosse to other cities. The New Orleans Saints NFL football team flew the 180-seat Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 planes each week to La Crosse for summer camp, and to and from NFL cities for pre-season games. The airport's control tower was one of 143 towers slated for closure by the FAA due to the 2013 Federal sequester.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 FAA Contract Tower Closure List )〕 However, the closures did not occur after Congress restored funding to the FAA. 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「La Crosse Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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