Southwest Michigan Regional Airport

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Southwest Michigan Regional Airport
Logo Southwest Michigan Regional Airport.svg
Airport Benton Harbor.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code KBEH
IATA code BEH
Coordinates

42 ° 7 '42 "  N , 86 ° 25' 42"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 7 '42 "  N , 86 ° 25' 42"  W
Height above MSL 196 m (643  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 2 miles southwest of Benton Harbor , Michigan ;
6 miles southwest of St. Joseph , Michigan
Street Interstate 94
Basic data
opening January 2, 1940
surface 197 hectares
Runways
9/27 1557 m × 30 m asphalt
13/31 1116 m × 30 m asphalt
18/36 762 m × 30 m asphalt

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The Southwest Michigan Regional Airport is a regional airport in the southwest of the state of Michigan in the United States . It belongs to the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, which are three and six kilometers from the airport. The nearest international airport is O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, approximately 120 kilometers away. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport was previously served by Mesaba Airlines , which offered several daily flights to Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit , the hub of Northwest Airlines . Today it is only used by private and corporate pilots.

It consists of several buildings such as hangars and administration buildings, three asphalt runways , each 30 meters wide, with lengths between 762 and 1557 meters, and a taxiway .

history

In 1939, the towns of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph bought 20 hectares and later an additional 26 hectares from the Ross Carrier Company and opened Ross Field Airport on January 2, 1940 . In 1944 the airport was enlarged by another 103 hectares and renamed Twin Cities Airport . The Twin Cities Airport Directorate was established for administration, in which Benton Harbor holds 63 percent and St. Joseph 37 percent. For a cost of US $ 50,000, runway 9/27 was extended in 1950 from 1,310 m to its current length of 1,557 m. In 1958, the Whirlpool Corporation built a hangar for $ 100,000 to station their corporate jet - a Douglas DC-3 - there. 1959 gave the American aviation authority the airline North Central Airlines a license to fly to Southwest Michigan Regional Airport and from 1st January 1960, the Company initiated with Convair CV-340 aircraft intended between the Southwest Michigan Regional Airport and O'Hare International Airport to commute. In 1966, passenger handling moved from the old terminal west of runway 18/36 to the new terminal east of the runway. In 1973 a new tower and a new maintenance hall with an area of ​​9000 m 2 were built. On June 1, 1975 the first fire engine was put into operation. In December 1982, North Central Airlines ceased operations and Mississippi Valley Airlines took over flight service to Chicago. From 1984 to 1987 Air Wisconsin Airlines again took over the route. The airport was given its current name in 1994. On June 15, 1995, Mesaba Airlines began operating flights to Detroit. In 1999 the terminal was named after H. B. Ross in honor of his contribution to the founding of the airport. On August 31, 2000, Mesaba Airlines ended its flights to Detroit due to a lack of profitability. Since then, the airport has only been used by business aviators. In 2001, Ross Warner and Randy Rue each built a 40 × 55 m hangar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the airport on the operator's website , accessed on December 17, 2008