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Martin State Airport is a joint civil-military public use
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located nine nautical miles (10 mi, 17 km) east of the
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. The facility is located within the census-designated place of Middle River on Maryland State Highway 150 (Eastern Boulevard), near the intersection of Maryland State Highway 700 (Martin Boulevard). The
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operates the airport on behalf of the
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. MTN is a general aviation
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History

This was the former plant airport for the Glenn L. Martin Company which produced a large number of military aircraft at this location between the 1920s and 1960s. The
Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum is located at Martin State Airport in Middle River, Maryland. It educates visitors through the use of exhibits, artifacts, archival materials and stories about aviation in Maryland over the last hundred ...
and old seaplane ramps are located at the southeast corner of the airport. In 1937, Glen Martin proposed height restrictions around the airport because a new generation of large, heavy transports would be flying from its seaplane base. By 1945, Martin had built $5.5 million in structures on the field. The company attempted to sell the property to the City of Baltimore for $1 million, but the commissioner Robert O'Boneell said there was insufficient room for expansion. In 1974, Governor
Marvin Mandel Marvin Mandel (April 19, 1920 – August 30, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair ...
proposed to purchase the airport from Martin Marietta. The company formed a real-estate arm, Chesapeake Park Inc., with the former Baltimore County Council Chair Herry J. Bartenfelder to build residential and commercial real estate. Citizens of Essex opposed the use conversion, lending support to the State's purchase of the field for $9.4 million. In 1980, Port-A-Port T-Hangars were purchased for general aviation use and lease. In the 1990s the airport was targeted as part of the Middle River Employment Center district to have MD route 43 highway extended from I-95 direct to the terminal through a series of wetland parcels.


Military use

The
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is a tenant activity at MTN with locally based
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aircraft. The
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facility is located on the northeast side of the field and is officially named Warfield Air National Guard Base.


Facilities and aircraft

Martin State Airport covers an area of at an
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of 21 feet (6 m) above
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. It has one
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paved
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designated 15/33 which is 6,997 by 180 feet (2,132 x 55 m). It also had one
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with a 65 by 65 ft (20 x 20 m)
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surface. For the 12-month period ending October 6, 2010, the airport had 69,193 aircraft operations, an average of 189 per day: 91%
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, 6%
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, and 3%
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. At that time there were 218 aircraft based at this airport: 64% single-
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, 14% multi-engine, 6% jet, 5%
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and 11%
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.


Operations

Martin State Airport serves a wide variety of general aviation and commercial operators. Martin State is home base to many helicopter operations including local news helicopters WJZ Channel 13 and WBAL Channel 11; Medevac services Express Care 1 and Helicopter Transport Services; and the aviation units for the
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, and the Baltimore City Police. There is a wide variety of flight training activities at the airport's three flight schools: Middle River Aviation, First Class Flight Academy, and Brett Aviation.Brett Aviation
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Cargo operations


See also

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Martin State Airport (MARC station) Martin State Airport, also referred to as Martin Airport, is a passenger rail station on the Northeast Corridor serving Martin State Airport in the unincorporated community of Middle River, Maryland. It is located in between the Aberdeen and Balti ...
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175th Wing The 175th Wing (175 WG) is a unit of the Maryland Air National Guard, stationed at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Middle River, Maryland. If activated to federal service, components of the Wing are gained by the two separate major commands ...


References


External links


Martin State Airport

Martin Airport on Google Street View

Aerial photo as of 8 April 1994
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