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Tulsa International Airport is a city-owned civil-military airport five miles (8 km) northeast of downtown Tulsa, in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named Tulsa Municipal Airport when the city acquired it in 1929.〔(Tulsa Preservation Commission "Transportation (1850–1945)." ) Retrieved January 14, 2011.〕 It got its present name in 1963.〔 The 138th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard is based at the co-located Tulsa Air National Guard Base.〔138th Fighter Wing, Oklahoma Air National Guard – History. Accessed January 27, 2011.()〕 The airport is the global maintenance headquarters for American Airlines.〔(American Airlines Group Website. April 2014. Accessed July 27, 2014 )〕 The Council Oak Senior Squadron and Starbase Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol meet on the field, with Council Oak at FBO Sparks Aviation and the Starbase squadron meeting at the Oklahoma Air National Guard Base on the Northeast side of the field. Additionally, two Civil Air Patrol aircraft are based at TUL, a Cessna 172 and Cessna 182 respectively. During World War II Air Force Plant No. 3 was built on the southeast side of the airport, and Douglas Aircraft manufactured several types of aircraft there. After the war this facility was used by Douglas (later McDonnell Douglas) and Rockwell International (later Boeing) for aircraft manufacturing, modification, repair, and research.〔(Air Force Plant No. 3 at globalsecurity.org )〕 Spirit AeroSystems currently builds Commercial Airline parts for Boeing aircraft〔Spirit AeroSystems〕 in part of the building and IC Bus Corporation assembles school buses in the other part.〔(IC Bus Website )〕 Spirit AeroSystems builds Boeing Wing and floor beam parts and Gulfstream Wing parts in a facility on the east side of the airport, just north of runway 26.〔 The Tulsa Air and Space Museum is on the northwest side of the airport. Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport serves as a reliever airport. ==History== Duncan A. McIntyre, an early aviator and native of New Zealand, moved to Tulsa in 1919. His first airport was located at Apache and Memorial and opened August 22, 1919.〔Thoburn, Joseph & Wright, Muriel. Oklahoma A History of The State and Its People Vol. 4 Page 461>〕 He moved and established a private airport on an 80-acre tract at the corner of Admiral Place and Sheridan Avenue. McIntyre Field had three hangars to house 40 aircraft and a beacon for landings after sundown.〔Jones, Kim. (Aviation in Tulsa and Northeastern Oklahoma ). 2009. ISBN 978-0-7385-6163-9. Available through Google Books. Retrieved January 17, 2011.〕 McIntyre evidently closed his airport during the 1930s and merged it with R. F. Garland a Tulsa oil man and owner of the Garland Airport at 51st and Sheridan Road for $350,000.() He ran the airport and became the president of the new venture. This airport would later become the Brown Airport (after a number of owners and names including the commercial airport before it moved to 61st and Yale. In 1940, McIntyre accepted a position with Lockheed Corporation and moved to California. Charles Lindbergh landed at McIntyre Field on September 30, 1927. He had been persuaded to visit Tulsa by William G. Skelly, who was then president of the local Chamber of Commerce, as well as a booster of the young aviation industry. In addition to being a wealthy oilman and founder of Skelly Oil Company, Skelly founded Spartan Aircraft Company. Lindbergh had already landed at Oklahoma City Municipal Airport, Bartlesville Municipal Airport and Muskogee's Hatbox Field. All of these were superior to the privately owned McIntyre Field. Lindbergh pointed this out at a banquet given that night in his honor.〔 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「Tulsa International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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