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Sawyer International Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. It is located south of the central business district of the city of Marquette.〔 This commercial and general aviation airport is located near Gwinn, on a portion of the former K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, which closed in September 1995. The airport opened for passenger service in September 1999, serving Marquette and the surrounding area. It replaced the former Marquette County Airport which closed the same year. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA), this airport is assigned SAW by the FAA〔 and MQT by the IATA〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Sawyer International Airport (IATA: MQT, ICAO: KSAW, FAA: SAW) )〕 (which assigned SAW to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) )〕 The airport's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) identifier is KSAW.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Sawyer International: SAW (KSAW) )〕 ==Facilities and aircraft== Sawyer International Airport covers an area of . It has a single asphalt/concrete runway, ,〔 originally re-designed in 1959 to accommodate B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2011, the airport had 21,345 aircraft operations (a decrease from 22,515 operations in 2008), an average of 58 per day: 49% general aviation, 49% air taxi, 2% military, and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 45 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter.〔 There is an industrial park, the Telkite Technology Park,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Telkite Technology Park )〕 adjacent to the airport, with of land and of space in a Michigan Renaissance Zone, which exempts the tenant or owner from the majority of state and local taxes. The airport is home to the Marquette County Aviation Wall of Honor which features many influential pilots and engineers. 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「Sawyer International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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