Jamestown Regional Airport is two miles northeast of Jamestown, in

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, United States. It is owned by the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority, and was formerly Jamestown Municipal Airport. It is used for

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and sees one airline, with flights twice each weekday and once on Saturdays and Sundays. Scheduled passenger service is subsidized by the

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records say the airport had 2,769 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, 3,471 in 2009 and 4,434 in 2010. The

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for 2011-2015 categorized it as a ''non-primary commercial service'' airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).

Facilities

The airport covers 1,500

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s (607 ha) at an elevation of 1,500 feet (457 m). It has two

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runways: 13/31 is 6,502 by 100 feet (1,982 x 30 m) and 4/22 is 5,750 by 75 feet (1,753 x 23 m). In 2010 the airport had 37,252 aircraft operations, average 102 per day: 85%

, 11%

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, 4% airline and <1% military. 51 aircraft were then based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, and 2%

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Airline and destinations

United Express uses CRJ200s operated by

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to Denver and Devils Lake.

Historical airline service

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began flying to Jamestown in 1947; its first scheduled jets were in 1968. Jamestown Aviation, Inc. began five day a week service on May 17, 1978, between Jamestown and Minneapolis, Minnesota with one daily round trip on a six-passenger twin-engine aircraft. This was in response to a Northwest pilot's strike that started on April 30, 1978, and the cancellation of

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service on a route from Minneapolis, Fargo, Jamestown and Bismarck, North Dakota.

Statistics

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket DOT-OST-1997-2785
from the

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Order 2005-11-17 (November 22, 2005)
selecting Mesaba Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Mesaba Airlines, to provide essential air service with

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aircraft at Devils Lake and Jamestown, North Dakota, for two years for annual subsidy rates of $1,329,858 at Devils Lake and $1,351,677 at Jamestown ($2,681,535 annually for both points combined). *
Order 2007-8-16 (August 17, 2007)
re-selects Mesaba Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Mesaba Airlines, operating as Northwest AirLink, to provide essential air service with Saab 340 aircraft at Devils Lake and Jamestown, North Dakota, for the two-year period of October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008, for annual subsidy rates of $1,331,664 at Devils Lake and $1,355,011 at Jamestown ($2,685,675 annually for both points combined). *
Order 2009-8-6 (August 11, 2009)
re-selecting Mesaba Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Delta Connection, to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) with Saab 340 aircraft at Devils Lake and Jamestown, North Dakota, for the two-year period of October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2011, for annual subsidy rates of $1,459,493 at Devils Lake and $1,963,220 at Jamestown ($3,422,713 annually for both points combined). *
Ninety Day Notice (July 15, 2011)
of Mesaba Aviation, Inc. and Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. of termination of service at Devils Lake, ND and Jamestown, ND. *
Order 2012-1-17 (January 23, 2012)
selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Jamestown, North Dakota, for an annual subsidy of $1,987,655, effective with the start of service by Great Lakes. We anticipate that Great Lakes will start service on or about March 12, 2012. *
Order 2014-1-19 (January 30, 2014)
selecting SkyWest Airlines (SkyWest) to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Devils Lake, North Dakota, for $3,224,917 annually, and Jamestown, North Dakota, for $3,126,564 annually, with service set at eleven (11) nonstop or one-stop round trips per week at each community to Denver International Airport (DEN).

External links

Jamestown Regional Airport - Admiral Don Weiss Field
official website
Jamestown Regional Airport
at City of Jamestown website

page at North Dakota Aeronautics Commission website
Aerial image as September 1997
from

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