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Trenton–Mercer Airport , sometimes also referred to as Trenton Mercer Airport,〔 is a county-owned, joint civil–military, public airport located four miles northwest of Trenton in the West Trenton section of Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.〔 Formerly known as Mercer County Airport, the airport serves one scheduled airline plus general and corporate aviation. The US Department of Transportation reports that approximately 399,000 passengers departed and 395,000 arrived at the airport between June 2014 and May 2015. A total of 794,000 passengers used the airport during this period〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp?pn=1&Airport=TTN&Airport_Name=Trenton,%20NJ:%20Trenton%20Mercer&carrier=FACTS )〕 Trenton–Mercer is the fourth busiest airport in New Jersey with an average of 203 aircraft operations per day (after Newark's 1153 per day, Teterboro's 434 per day and Atlantic City's 205 per day).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AirNav: KTTN - Trenton Mercer Airport )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AirNav: KEWR - Newark Liberty International Airport )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AirNav: KTEB - Teterboro Airport )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AirNav: KACY - Atlantic City International Airport )〕 Frontier Airlines, which is the only airline currently serving the airport, recognizes the airport as Trenton/Princeton on their website with 12 non-stop destinations. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 24,634 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2007, 974 enplanements in 2008,〔 〕 561 in 2009, 853 in 2010, 3,414 in 2011, 6,459 in 2012, 148,256 in 2013, and 377,961 in 2014.〔 〕 It is in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which called it a ''general aviation'' facility.〔 〕 == History == The first airplane landed at what is now Trenton–Mercer Airport in 1907, in what was then Alfred Reeder's farm field, just off of Bear Tavern Road in Ewing. Twenty-two years later in 1929 Skillman Airport opened to the public. During World War II the nearby General Motors Inland Fisher Guide Plant ceased producing civilian vehicles and began making TBF Avenger carrier-based torpedo bombers for the United States Navy. Skillman Airport expanded to accommodate test flights of this aircraft, and after the airport returned to county control following the end of the war it was renamed Mercer County Airport. After the war, the navy reestablished a presence with the construction of Naval Air Warfare Center Trenton adjacent to the airport, which remained open until 1997.〔(Former Naval Air Warfare Center Trenton ), United States Navy. Accessed October 28, 2014. "The former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Trenton is located in Ewing Township, New Jersey. The property is bordered to the north and west by Mercer County Airport, to the sorth by Parkway Avenue, and to the east by a railroad line. The property consists of approximately 528 acres of improved and unimproved land. The NAWC was operated by the U.S. Navy from 1951 until 1997 as a jet engine test facility."〕 Airport Air Traffic Control operations based in the control tower were 6 AM to Midnight during the 1980s and early 1990s. Since January 1994, tower operations have been shortened to 6 AM to 10 PM. In 1995 the airport's name was changed to Trenton–Mercer Airport in an effort to identify it with the city of Trenton (the capital of New Jersey and county seat of Mercer County). On March 11, 1998 an NWS/FAA Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) became operational at the airport, replacing the human weather observers which had previously reported weather conditions. For many years the county has planned to expand the airport and attract more commercial airlines. The plans have been opposed by residents of suburban housing tracts in Ewing, Lawrence, Hopewell, Lower Makefield, Pennington and Yardley (some of which are in Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River). Most of these developments were built after the airport. In 1994 as a cost-cutting measure, the Mercer County Airport Police and Fire Department was disbanded and replaced by the Mercer County Sheriff's Office (police) and ProTec Fire Services (Aircraft Fire Rescue). 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「Trenton–Mercer Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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