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Manchester–Boston Regional Airport , commonly referred to simply as Manchester Airport, is a public airport located south of the central business district of Manchester, New Hampshire,〔 on the border of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties. The airport lies in two communities, Manchester and Londonderry. Founded in 1927, it moved more than 1 million passengers in a year for the first time in 1997. It handled 3.72 million passengers in 2008, down from its all-time high of 4.33 million in 2005. Still, it remains New England's fourth-largest airport by passenger volume, behind Boston Logan in Massachusetts, Bradley International in Connecticut, and T. F. Green in Rhode Island, in that order. The facility was known simply as "Manchester Airport" until April 18, 2006, when it added "-Boston Regional" to advertise its proximity to Boston, about to the south. Certified for Cat III B Instrument Landing operations, the airport has a reputation for never surrendering to bad weather. The airport has closed only once, when the national airspace was shut down for two days following the September 11 terrorist attacks, and all American airports were required to close as well.〔Edward W. Browder, Jr. and Maurice B. Quirin, ''Manchester's Airport: Flying Through Time'', pp. 329-330. ISBN 0-9721489-9-X〕 It is home to the New Hampshire Aviation Museum, which is built around an Art Deco control tower and terminal first opened in 1938. == Use == Municipalities within the Boston Metropolitan Area, in partnership with their state governments in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, decided to make Manchester and T. F. Green alternatives to Boston's Logan Airport in order to avoid having to build a new airport. Manchester–Boston is New England's third-largest cargo airport. Only Connecticut's Bradley International, which is a hub for UPS Airlines, and Logan exceed it in terms of cargo handled. In 2005, the airport processed 150 million pounds of freight. Most of this was carried aboard aircraft flown by FedEx, UPS, and DHL. All three serve Manchester with large, cargo-specific jets, including the Airbus A300, DC-10, and MD-11 by FedEx and UPS. UPS uses Manchester to "feed" the rest of northern New England by contracting with Wiggins Airways,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wiggins Airways' Aircraft Flight Operations ) 〕 which flies smaller prop-driven planes to places like Portland, Augusta, Bangor, Presque Isle, Rutland, and other communities. To handle this "regional sort", UPS built a sorting facility where packages coming in from the company's Louisville hub are redistributed to trucks or to the Wiggins feeder aircraft. FedEx previously used Manchester as a regional sorting station as well, but now supports the northern New England destinations via direct flights from Memphis, Tennessee to Portland and Burlington. A contract with the Postal Service fills the FedEx jets (coming from hubs in Memphis and Indianapolis) with mail in addition to the typical assortment of express and overnight packages. DHL used to operate a 727-200 on a Wilmington, Ohio-Allentown, Pennsylvania-Manchester-Wilmington routing, but that service has since ceased. 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「Manchester–Boston Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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