Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport , formerly Dickinson Municipal Airport, is six miles south of Dickinson, in Stark County,

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. It is owned by the Dickinson Airport Authority. The airport serves western North Dakota, eastern

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and northwest

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, home to

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. The airport sees one airline,

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, flying an Embraer Regional-Jet (ERJ) to

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;

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flew to Minneapolis-St. Paul until November 30, 2015. The first airline flights were Frontier DC-3s in 1959.

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records say the airport had 9,164 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, 8,924 in 2009 and 10,383 in 2010. The

(FAA)

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for 2021–2025 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. The airport is named for

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, Jr., the 26th President of the United States.

Facilities

The airport covers 626

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s (253 ha) at an elevation of 2,592 feet (790 m). It has two runways: 7/25 is an asphalt runway that is 4,700 by 75 feet (1,433 x 23 m) and 15/35 is a concrete runway that is 7,301 by 100 feet (2,225 x 30 m), this runway is temporary while runway 14/32 is rebuilt. In the year ending October 25, 2019 the airport had 17,114 aircraft operations, average 47 per day: 85%

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, 9% airline, 6%

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, and <1% military. In October 2021, 34 aircraft were based at the airport: 28 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 1 jet, and 1 helicopter. On April 30, 2020 a FAA Airport Improvement Program grant of $5,388,889 was awarded to rebuild and extend runway 14/32.

Airline and destination

Passenger

United Express uses CRJ200s operated by SkyWest Airlines

Cargo

Statistics

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket OST-1995-697
from the

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Order 2005-1-9
selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., to provide small community air service with Embraer Brasilia aircraft at Dickinson, North Dakota, for two years for an annual subsidy rate of $1,697,248. *
Order 2006-11-21
re-selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., operating as both a United Airlines and Frontier code-share partner, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Dickinson, North Dakota, for an annual subsidy rate of $1,696,977, for the two-year period of February 1, 2007, through January 31, 2009. *
Order 2008-10-24
re-selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., operating as both a Frontier Airlines and United Airlines code-share partner, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Dickinson, North Dakota, for an annual subsidy rate of $2,274,177, for the two-year period of February 1, 2009, through January 31, 2011. *
Order 2010-11-16
re-selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., operating as both a Frontier Airlines and United Airlines code-share partner, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Dickinson, North Dakota, for an annual subsidy rate of $2,019,177, for the two-year period of February 1, 2011, through January 31, 2013.

External links

Aerial image as of June 1995
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