Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport , is a state-owned, public use

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located five

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s (6 mi, 9 km) south of the

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, a city in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. Situated in North Clarendon, it was formerly known as Rutland State Airport. Scheduled commercial service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service and provided by

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, with three flights daily on eleven-passenger Tecnam P2012 Traveller aircraft to

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with typical flight times of 40 minutes. Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport is the closest commercial service airport to the

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s of Killington,

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, Stratton,

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, Magic Mountain, Mount Snow and

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Name change

Legislation was introduced into the

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in January 2007 to change the official name of the airport to Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport. The state agency of transportation, meanwhile, had plans to change the name to Rutland/Southwest Vermont Regional Airport. This provoked some opposition from the town of

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on the grounds that the

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(located in the town), is currently known as "Southwest Vermont's Airport". The agency indicated that it intended to go ahead with the name change anyway, claiming that Bennington's opposition came too late in the process. However, the agency changed the name to Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport on August 15, 2007.

Facilities and aircraft

Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport covers an area of 345

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s (140 ha) at an

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of 787 feet (240 m) above

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. It has two

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paved

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s: 01/19 is 5,304 by 100 feet (1,525 x 30 m) and 13/31 is 3,169 by 75 feet (966 x 23 m). Runway 19 has a 300-foot EMAS arresting system on the end. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2017, the airport had 13,091 aircraft operations, an average of 16 per day: 86%

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, 14%

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, and 0.2%

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. At that time there were 23 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-

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and 4% multi-engine.

Airline and destination

The following

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offers scheduled passenger service:

Statistics

Rutland–Southern Vermont is an FAA Part 139 certificated airport. As per

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records, the airport had the following passenger boardings ("enplanements") in recent

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s: The airport is included in the

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for 2013–2017, which categorized it as a ''non-primary commercial service'' airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).2013–2017 NPIAS Report, Appendix A
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the original
on May 1, 2014. Total air cargo carried in 2006 was approximately 520,000 pounds with 1,560 cargo operations via

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and

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References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket OST-2005-21681
from the

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: *
Order 2005-8-23 (August 30, 2005)
re-selecting Champlain Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a CommutAir, to provide essential air service at Rutland, Vermont, at an annual subsidy rate of $849,705, for the two-year period November 1, 2005, through October 31, 2007. *
Order 2007-6-6 (June 6, 2007)
prohibiting Champlain Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a CommutAir, operating as Continental Connection, from terminating its subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Plattsburgh and Saranac Lake/Lake Placid, New York, and Rutland, Vermont, at the end of its 90-day notice period, and requesting long-term proposals from carriers interested in providing EAS at all three communities, for a new two-year period, with or without subsidy. *
Order 2007-9-13 (September 13, 2007)
selecting Big Sky Transportation Co., d/b/a Big Sky Airlines, operating as Delta Connection, to provide subsidized EAS at Plattsburgh and Saranac Lake/Lake Placid, New York, utilizing 19-seat Beech 1900-D aircraft, at an annual subsidy rate of $2,408,294, and Hyannis Air Service, Inc., d/b/a Cape Air, to provide subsidized EAS at Rutland, Vermont, with 9-seat Cessna 402s, at annual subsidy rate of $839,746. The carriers will provide EAS at their respective communities for two-year terms beginning when they inaugurate full service. *
Order 2009-8-11 (August 18, 2009)
re-selecting Hyannis Air Service, Inc., d/b/a Cape Air, operating as JetBlue Airways code-share partner, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Rutland, Vermont, for the four-year period of November 1, 2009, through October 31, 2013, for an annual subsidy rate of $797,151.

External links

Rutland – Southern Vermont Regional Airport

Rutland Southern VT Regional (RUT)
at Vermont Airport Directory
Aerial image as of May 1994
from

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