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Redmond Municipal Airport (Roberts Field) is in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is owned and operated by the city of
Redmond, Oregon Redmond is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. Incorporated on July 6, 1910, the city is on the eastern side of Oregon's Cascade Range, in the High Desert in Central Oregon. From Redmond there is access to recreational opportuni ...
. It is the main commercial airport in
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, with nonstop scheduled passenger airline flights to several hubs in the western U.S. as well as seasonally to Chicago. The airfield serves Redmond and nearby Bend, Oregon. It is the home of the
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factory and a base for
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aircraft operated by private airtanker companies. The
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( USFS) Redmond Air Center is on the airport and supports regional firefighting operations with this federal facility providing training and housing for
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teams along with fuel, water and fire retardant for airtanker aircraft at its ramps along the north side of the field.
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began new nonstop service between Redmond and the
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(BUR) in the
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area on May 13, 2021, with
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mainline jetliners. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a ''primary commercial service'' airport.
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records say the airport had 364,921 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2017, up from 306,517 in 2016.


History

Built in the 1920s, passenger flights arrived at the airport in 1940. During
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the airfield was used by the
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as a bomber base. After the war the federal government sold the airport to the city for $1.


Past airline service

In 1947
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began flying Douglas DC-3s Portland - Redmond - Klamath Falls - Sacramento - San Francisco - Monterey - Santa Barbara - Los Angeles. In 1959 United Convair 340s flew Seattle - Portland - Redmond - Klamath Falls - Sacramento - San Francisco. In 1959 West Coast Airlines replaced United; their DC-3s flew
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- Salem, OR - Redmond, OR -
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route. West Coast Airlines later merged with
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and
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to form Air West which was later renamed
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. In 1972 Hughes Airwest Fairchild F-27s flew nonstop to Portland and direct to Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle. By 1975, Hughes Airwest had begun
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s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s to Roberts Field. Hughes Airwest DC-9s flew nonstop to Portland and direct to San Francisco ( SFO) and Los Angeles ( LAX). In 1980 Hughes Airwest had four DC-9 flights per day from Redmond, two to San Francisco via Redding and two to Seattle via Eugene. In 1986 Hughes Airwest merged into
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, which continued DC-9 service at Redmond. Other jets to Redmond included
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s for a few months in winter 1989–90 with nonstops to Los Angeles ( LAX) and Seattle, Pacific Express BAC One-Elevens to Portland, San Francisco and other cities,
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(PSA)
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s to San Francisco, and
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McDonnell Douglas MD-80s to San Jose, CA. On August 1, 2006
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began twice daily nonstops to Los Angeles with
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Q400s; Horizon reduced service to one flight daily on June 24, 2008 and by 2010 this flight had ended. In the late 2000s,
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flew McDonnell Douglas MD-80s twice a week to both
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and
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's suburban airport Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA). In early 2012
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announced it would fly to Oakland, California beginning in April. On May 23, 2012
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announced it would end service to the airport on August 12. Allegiant later resumed serving Redmond with
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mainline jetliners. In 2005
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flights operated by SkyWest Airlines for
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began nonstop to Salt Lake City with
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s, now replaced by the larger
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. All
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flights operated by SkyWest Airlines on behalf of
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are being flown with Canadair regional jets to Redmond following the retirement of
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s by SkyWest.
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are now largely operated by the Embraer E175, having replaced regular Q400 service. Horizon announced cuts to
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and Portland service in 2009, as it continued to phase out its smaller aircraft in favor of the Q400. The airline's seat capacity from Redmond is expected to remain nearly the same.
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announced it would operate its regional jet service to Denver year-round, thus giving RDM passenger service to a second hub in addition to the
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service to Salt Lake City.
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announced it would upgrade its CRJ 200 flights to Denver from on the weekends only to daily and would expand service to San Francisco as the EMB-120 Brasilia was replaced with CRJ 200s. This increased the daily seats despite the reduction from three flights per day to two. Flight time was reduced by nearly an hour. Boardings increased in the first half of 2010. United resumed three Redmond-San Francisco flights a day in November 2010 after several years with only two flights. In 2011, passenger boardings were 3% higher than 2010 (through October), thus being the busiest year since the airport opened In early 2013
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announced it would offer nonstop service to Los Angeles for
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with these flights replacing the service by Alaska Airlines regional connector Horizon Air. A method known as a "travel bank" was used, where local individuals, businesses, and civic entities pre-purchased travel vouchers from the airline, acting as a commitment to the required level of demand on the route, which began in June, and was served by SkyWest Airlines
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s branded as American Eagle. By mid-2014, United announced the end of all flights between Portland and both Redmond and Eugene, due to SkyWest's elimination of the EMB-120 from its fleet; the routes are ostensibly unable to support CRJ service. A year later, a transition of the once-daily Los Angeles flight to irregular seasonal operations was acknowledged by American Airlines with American Eagle service to LAX resuming in 2015. In summer 2016, daily service was added on American Eagle started service between Redmond and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, also using regional contractor SkyWest's CRJ-700; the flights began sooner than expected due to travel-bank fundraising among the Central Oregon community. In 2017
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added
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service to Seattle; in 2018
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added
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service to Los Angeles. In summer 2019 United added seasonal flights to its hub at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. This is the airport's only nonstop service to a destination east of the Mississippi River.


Facility growth/passenger terminal

A passenger terminal was built in 1950 and replaced in 1981 by a terminal. In 1992-93 the terminal was expanded to . By late 2009, Roberts Field completed another large terminal expansion, designed by HNTB. Along with increased parking, the facility has increased its area by about 600%, allowing more room for security and traveler services, as well as concessions and gate operations. While the new bi-level structure is capable of supporting
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s, the low frequency of full-size jets operating from the terminal, and no indication of tenant airline desire, means that these bridges are not currently included, though walking distance to and from planes has been reduced. In October 2009, most sections of the expanded passenger terminal opened for public use; the improvements include more numerous check-in counters and bathrooms, along with a two-story, windowed departure lounge. Travelers may now use covered walkways between aircraft and terminal. A year after the expansion's completion, a bar and restaurant opened in the secure area. Efforts to add additional concessions are currently underway. A restaurant was in the main terminal until 2009, but this is the first time that food and drink are available in the departure gate area. Since the airport began displaying public art in the terminal, it has sold nearly $100,000 worth of artworks to travelers.


Infrastructure

The airport upgraded its mass-casualty vehicle in 2011 due to larger commercial jets using Roberts Field; while the old unit could handle 37 patients, the new truck is prepared for an incident involving over 100. In early 2012, the airport began hosting a
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helicopter operated by Lifeflight. In May 2016 the airport runways were closed for nearly three weeks, allowing their intersection to be reconstructed as part of a project to re-pave them both.


Facilities

Roberts Field covers 2,518 acres (1,019 ha) at an
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of . It has two asphalt
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s: 5/23 is and 11/29 is . It has one concrete helipad H1, . In the year ending March 24, 2022 the airport had 75,150 aircraft operations, average 206 per day: 72%
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, 10%
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, 18% airline, and <1% military. 93 aircraft were then based at the airport: 80 single-engine, 7 multi-engine, 2
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, and 4 jet.


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External links


Redmond Municipal Airport - Roberts Field
official site
Aerial image as of July 2001
from
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