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Purdue University Airport is a public-use airport in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States. Owned by Purdue University, the airport is southwest of the central business district of Lafayette,〔 in West Lafayette. Because of the heavy traffic generated by Purdue University and its flight programs, Purdue University Airport is one of the busiest airports in Indiana, second only to Indianapolis International Airport. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,959 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 1,518 enplanements in 2009, and 1,405 in 2010.〔 〕 It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''general aviation'' airport.〔 〕 The facility no longer offers scheduled commercial airline service. Charters flights do operate to the airport, mainly during sport seasons for Purdue Sports Teams and competing teams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.purdue.edu/airport/services.htm )〕 ==History== Purdue University Airport was the first university-owned airport in the United States. In 1930, inventor-industrialist David Ross (one of two people for whom Purdue's Ross–Ade Stadium is named) donated a tract of land to be used as an aeronautical education and research facility at Purdue University. The U.S. government designated Purdue University Airport as an emergency landing strip on 1 November 1930; runway 5-23 was paved later in the 1930s. Amelia Earhart prepared her airplane for her around-the-world flight attempt in Hangar 1 at the airport. Earhart was an adjunct faculty member at the time and the Lockheed Model 10 Electra she flew was purchased for her by the Purdue Research Foundation.〔AIAA, pp. 2–3.〕 Hundreds of members of the U.S. Army, Navy, and War Training Service were trained at Purdue Airport during World War II, as were several commercial pilots from Latin America.〔Topping, p. 240.〕 Later, the airport became the home of the first Reserve Officers' Training Corps flight program (1955).〔AIAA, p. 4.〕 The original hangar, now referred to as the Niswonger Hall of Aviation Technology, still stands and is used by Purdue University's department of Aviation Technology for offices, classrooms, and laboratories. The bay that held Earhart's plane still contains aircraft; they are used by the Aeronautical Engineering Technology program for maintenance and inspection training. A large addition to the building was completed in the summer of 2009. A plaque on the building near the side entrance commemorates the airport's history. In the early 60s, runway 10-28 and a larger hangar were built to support the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction with two DC-6 aircraft.〔Topping, p. 324.〕 From the 1950s until the mid-2000s, Purdue University Airport received regularly scheduled commercial air service. Allegheny Airlines / Lake Central Airlines (both now part of US Airways) maintained flights to Chicago O'Hare and Pittsburgh with the latter service being operated with British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven (BAC 1-11) twinjet aircraft for a period of time. Air Wisconsin offered service to Chicago O'Hare and to Marion. Northwest Airlines (via Mesaba Air) offered service to Detroit. Lastly, TWA (via Trans States Airlines) offered service to St. Louis. As of 2013, all of these carriers have ceased operations into Purdue Airport and there is currently no commercial passenger service operated from the airport, but it is possible in the future just not planned. The service ended in February, 2004, the final service was American Eagle to St. Louis 3 times daily. Purdue University Airport also had its own airline, Purdue Airlines in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally operating DC-3 aircraft, and then a DC-6, there were later up to three McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (Series 30) aircraft based at the Airport for charter service. One such charter was to Hugh Hefner for his all-black DC-9 Playboy jet (maintained periodically at the Airport). Evergreen International maintained a short-lived cargo operation at the Airport in the late 1970s using Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop aircraft. President Ronald Reagan and Air Force One (then a military version of a Boeing 707) visited Purdue University Airport on April 9, 1987. He later wrote a letter concerning a list of questions to the editor of the ''Purdue Exponent'' concerning his optimism about the future of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and his favorable impression of what he saw at Purdue. 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「Purdue University Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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