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: ''For the Air National Guard use of this facility, see Truax Field Air National Guard Base'' Dane County Regional Airport (formerly Truax Field) is a civil-military airport six miles northeast of downtown Madison, the capital of Wisconsin.〔 It has three runways and in 2011 it served over 1.5 million passengers. MSN serves American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines. These airlines have non-stop flights to thirteen hubs with over 94 departures and arrivals daily and additional destinations such as Washington DC, New York City and Orlando. Delta and United provide service with Airbus A319s, A320s, Boeing 737s and 757s which are among the largest aircraft seen at the airport. Truax Field was named in honor of Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax, USAAF, a Wisconsin native who was killed (along with his wingman, Lieutenant Speckman) in a P-40 training accident during poor weather in San Anselmo, CA on November 2, 1941, just before the United States' entry into World War II. The airport is home to the 1st Battalion 147th Aviation Regiment and is an Air Assault Battalion in the Wisconsin Army National Guard. The 1-147th operates the UH-60M Blackhawk Helicopter and has deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. 115th Fighter Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard, which operates F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. The 115th Fighter Wing is one of 14 operational air defense units responsible for air defense of the eastern continental United States. ==History== Originally known as Madison Army Airfield, Truax Field was activated as an U.S. Army Air Forces airfield in June 1942 during World War II. During the war it was used by the Army Air Force Eastern Technical Training Center, a major school operating at Truax AAF for training radio operators and mechanics, and later expanded to training in radar operations, control tower operations and other communications fields for the Army Airways Communication Service. A unit established in 1943 trained radio operators and mechanics on B-29 Superfortress communications equipment. The host unit on the airfield was the 334th (later 3508th) Army Air Force Base Unit. On September 17, 1945, the airfield's mission was changed to that of a separation center, and it was closed as an active AAF airfield on November 30, 1945. Conveyed to local civil authorities, the Madison Municipal Airport became the home of the Wisconsin Air National Guard and its present-day 115th Fighter Wing (115 FW), an Air National Guard fighter wing operationally-gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC) and which still operates from the base, flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon. A 31,000 square foot terminal building was built on the west side of the airfield. The cost was $2.36 million, and it opened on December 15, 1966. In 1986 the airport tripled in size with a $12 million project that expanded the terminal from 32,000 square feet to 90,000 square feet, adding a second level concourse with six boarding bridges.〔(History Of The Dane County Regional Airport )〕 In 2006 the airport completed a $65 million expansion that doubled the size of the terminal, built in a Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced prairie style designed by the Architectural Alliance based in Minneapolis.〔(Dane County Regional Airport Opens to Rave Reviews )〕 New features include more restaurant and retail area post-security, an art court, and both business and family lounges. As has been the case in the past decade the airport has once again been adding additional parking since 2007. The new terminal holds 13 gates with jetways, WiFi, 6 restaurants, family and business gathering rooms, and an art gallery. 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「Dane County Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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