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Westerly State Airport : ウィキペディア英語版 | Westerly State Airport
Westerly State Airport is a public use airport in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. It serves the town of Westerly and is located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of its central business district.〔 It is primarily a general aviation airport, but there is also scheduled airline service to Block Island provided by New England Airlines. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,201 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 8,804 enplanements in 2009, and 11,402 in 2010.〔 〕 It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport based on enplanements in 2008 (more than 10,000 per year).〔 〕 Westerly State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation. The other five airports include T.F. Green State Airport, Newport State Airport, North Central State Airport, Quonset State Airport, and Block Island State Airport. == History == Westerly State began as a grass strip in the 1920s, and became the second state-owned airport in the United States (after T.F. Green Airport) in the 1940s. The airport was paved and expanded when it became a U.S. Navy base during World War II, due to its prime location halfway between Boston and New York City.
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