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Missoula International Airport is five miles northwest of Missoula, in Missoula County, Montana. It is owned by the Missoula County Airport Authority.〔 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).〔 〕 Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 288,071 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 281,428 in 2009 and 289,875 in 2010.〔 〕 Several expansion projects are planned or underway. The recently constructed 101-foot control tower was completed in September of 2012. An expansion of the terminal building, with a new security screening area, was completed in 2007. == History == Missoula's first landing strip was laid out in 1923 south of the university. An additional strip near the Western Montana Fair Grounds on what is now Sentinel High School was sold to the county in 1927 at the request of the Missoula chapter of the National Aeronautic Association and would become Missoula's first true airport. The current airfield is named after that chapter's first president, Harry O. Bell along with mountain flying pioneer Bob Johnson of Johnson Flying Service (now Minuteman Aviation). The original Garden City Airport was renamed Hale Field in 1935 and would operate as such until closing forever in 1954. The airport was gradually replaced by the Missoula County Airport opened in 1941 with WPA funds and the cooperation of the US Forest Service who needed access to an airport. The new airport was renamed Johnson-Bell Field in 1968 and today serves nearly 600,000 passengers a year. 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「Missoula International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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