Havre City–County Airport is a public use

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located three

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s (6 km) west of the

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of Havre, a city in

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, United States. It is owned by the City of Havre and Hill County. The airport is served by one commercial airline, subsidized by the

Essential Air Service Essential Air Service (EAS) is a U.S. government program enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States, which had been served by certificated airlines prior to deregulation in 1978, maintain commercial service. Its aim is ...

program. Per the Bureau of Statistics Havre was the least used airport in the Continental United States flying under 6000 passengers in the year ending 2023. As per the

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, this airport had 180 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 744 in 2009, and 961 in 2010. The

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for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''

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'' airport (the ''commercial service'' category requires 2,500 enplanements per year, and Havre does not have that). Scheduled air service temporarily ceased on March 8, 2008, when Big Sky Airlines ended operations in bankruptcy. Great Lakes Airlines was given

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approval to take over Essential Air Service (EAS) and flights began in 2009. The airport is now served by Cape Air under EAS contract.

Facilities and aircraft

Havre City–County Airport covers an area of 720

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s (291 ha) at an

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of 2,591 feet (790 m) above

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. It has two asphalt paved runways: 8/26 is 5,205 by 100 feet (1,586 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 3,699 by 60 feet. For the 12-month period ending May 16, 2023, the airport had 9,790 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 70%

, 15%

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, 15% commercial, and <1%

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. At that time 29 aircraft were based at this airport: 28 single-

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and 1 multi-engine.

Airline and destination

The following

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offers scheduled passenger service:

Statistics

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket DOT-OST-1997-2605
from the U.S. Department of Transportation: *
Order 2005-12-20 (December 30, 2005)
selecting Big Sky Transportation Co., d/b/a Big Sky Airlines, to continue providing essential air service at seven Montana communities (Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Lewistown, Miles City, Sidney, and Wolf Point) for a new two-year period beginning March 1, 2006... *
Order 2007-11-21 (November 26, 2007)
selecting Big Sky Transportation Co., d/b/a Big Sky Airlines, to continue providing essential air service at seven Montana communities for a new two-year period beginning March 1, 2008... *
Order 2007-12-22 (December 21, 2007)
allowing Big Sky Transportation Co., d/b/a Big Sky Airlines, to suspend its subsidized essential air services at seven Montana communities on the date that Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., begins replacement service, and selecting Great Lakes to provide those services at subsidy rates totaling $8,201,992. *
Order 2011-1-27 (February 2, 2011)
selecting

Gulfstream International Airlines Gulfstream International Airlines was a United States airline that operated from 1988 to 2010. The airline primarily operated codeshare agreement, codeshare flights for major airlines. In December 2010, the airline went bankrupt and its assets we ...

, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) with 19-passenger Beechcraft B-1900D aircraft at Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Lewistown, Miles City, Sidney, and Wolf Point, Montana, for a two-year period beginning when the carrier inaugurates full EAS at all seven communities through the end of the 24th month thereafter (two-year period ended May 31, 2013)... *
Notice (June 28, 2013): from Silver Airways of its intent to discontinue scheduled subsidized Essential Air Service between Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Lewistown, Miles City, Sidney, Wolf Point, Montana and Billings, Montana.
*
Order 2013-6-3 (June 4, 2013)
extending the contract established under Order 2011-1-27, issued on February 3, 2011, for

Silver Airways Silver Airways was a regional airline in the United States with its headquarters in Hollywood, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale. It was founded in 2011 with assets from the former Gulfstream International Airlines, and la ...

, Inc. (formerly Gulfstream International Airlines), to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) operations at Lewistown, Miles City, Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Sidney, and Wolf Point, Montana, from June 1, 2013, until further notice. *
Order 2013-9-4 (September 5, 2013)
selecting Hyannis Air Service, Inc., d/b/a Cape Air, to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) with 9-passenger

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aircraft at Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Sidney, and Wolf Point, Montana, for a two-year period beginning December 1, 2013... *
Order 2013-12-1 (December 2, 2013)
Cape Air will commence full EAS at all five of the above communities beginning December 10, 2013, thereby establishing an end date for this contract of December 31, 2015.

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