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Garden City Regional Airport is a city owned, public use airport located eight nautical miles (15 km) southeast of the central business district of Garden City, in Finney County, Kansas, United States.〔 It is mostly used for general aviation, but is served by one commercial airline, a service which is subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $2,919,026 (per year).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Essential Air Service Reports )〕 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport.〔 〕 As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,453 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 10,014 in 2009, and 10,155 in 2010.〔 〕 == History == During World War II the United States Army Air Forces used Garden City Airport as a training airfield by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Gulf Coast Training Center. The facility was called Garden City Army Airfield. The main Garden City Army Airfield and its auxiliaries closed in November 1945 and were declared excess by the military on 18 May 1947. Civil authorities developed the main airfield into Garden City Regional Airport. Continental DC-3s landed at GCK from the 1940s until replaced by Central in 1961; successor Frontier's Convairs left around 1970. Garden City Regional Airport's status as former Garden City AAF helped it serve an important role during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When orders were dispatched to ground all domestic flights, three large jets were told to land at GCRA, the closest airport that could accommodate them. The airport had no stairs for large airliners and the passengers had to be evacuated by Garden City Fire Department ladder trucks.〔(Story about the 9/11 landings from the Garden City Telegram's web site )〕 In December, 2011, the EAS program awarded American Eagle Airlines two daily non-stop flights to Dallas-Fort Worth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garden City Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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