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South Bend International Airport is three miles northwest of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States. 〔 Formerly South Bend Airport〔〔 and South Bend Regional Airport,〔 〕〔 〕 it is the state's third busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic after Indianapolis International Airport and Fort Wayne International Airport. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a ''primary commercial service'' facility.〔 〕 Federal Aviation Administration records show the airport had 299,592 passenger enplanements in 2012,〔 〕 328,992 in 2013,〔 〕 and 311,158 in 2014.〔 〕 == History == In the early days South Bend's main airport was Cadet Field in present-day Granger. Vincent Hugo Bendix, founder of Bendix Aviation, bought land northwest of South Bend to provide air service closer to the city. Bendix Field opened in 1933. Bendix Field was later called St. Joseph County Airport, then Michiana Regional Transportation Center. The airport was renamed South Bend Regional Airport on January 1, 2000, to help identify the airport, many travelers not knowing the meaning of Michiana (taken from Michigan and Indiana). The April 1957 OAG shows 10 weekday departures on North Central, 9 on United, 6 on Lake Central and 3 on TWA. Until the 1980s the airport had four runways; in the 1950s runway 9 was 5000 ft, runways 6 (now taxiway A-3) and 12 (now taxiway A-4) were 4000 ft and the 3059-ft runway 18 connected the west ends of runways 6 and 12. In 1963-65 runway 9 was extended to 6000 ft. In 1967 SBN got its first scheduled jets, which were United Caravelles on a Chicago O'Hare-South Bend-Fort Wayne-Newark and back rotation. On April 23, 2014, the St. Joseph County Airport Authority announced the airport was changing its name from South Bend Regional Airport to South Bend International Airport. The Airport Authority has had conversations with two airlines interested in providing service to Mexico and the Bahamas and indicated that it was looking at potential service to Toronto, Ireland and Europe. As part of the change, the airport will begin a $3 million(USD) project to construct a general aviation facility and a border customs area, to be financed through a combination of federal, state and airport funds. 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「South Bend International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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