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Nashua Airport〔 at Boire Field〔 is a public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Nashua, a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.〔 Owned by the Nashua Airport Authority,〔 this airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport.〔 〕 For years, Nashua Airport was one of the busiest airports in New England in terms of take-offs and landings due to its use for flight training by adjacent Daniel Webster College. However, the school has ended its pilot-training program, and traffic has fallen about 40 percent in the past few years. == History == The airport dates back to 1934, when the city of Nashua bought a small existing airport, which lacked a hangar and had a grass runway. Over the next several years Nashua, with federal help, paved the runway and put up some buildings. According to the history in the airport web site, the hangar was constructed from bricks reused from a Nashua factory that burned in 1930 in what was known here as the Crown Hill Fire.〔 November 25, 2012.〕 In 1943 it was named Boire Field, after Ensign Paul Boire, who was Nashua's first casualty in World War II. The Nashua Airport Authority was established to oversee the airport in 1961. The New England Aeronautical Institute was founded here in 1965. The NEAI's Daniel Webster Junior College division〔 July 1, 2007.〕 was founded in 1967. The two schools merged in 1978 to form the current Daniel Webster College. The airport's control tower was built in 1972. The airport was one of the first to operate with a Non-Federal Control Tower in the early 1990s. This type of air traffic service, called a "contract tower", is common today. In 2012, runway 14-32 was moved to the northeast and extended by , to to accommodate larger corporate jets. The runway officially opened on August 31, 2012.〔 August 31, 2012.〕 The original runway was removed. Many taxiways to the new runway were rebuilt during the construction. 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「Nashua Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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