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Tyler Pounds Regional Airport is a city-owned airport three miles west of Tyler, in Smith County, Texas, United States.〔 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a ''primary commercial service'' airport.〔 〕 Federal Aviation Administration records show 76,168 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 73,841 in 2009 and 74,357 in 2010.〔 〕 The airport has been expanding to meet goals in "The Tyler Master Plan"; in August 17, 2002, the airport opened a new terminal building, doubling its space. Tyler is a large center for General Aviation, with three public parking lots for General Aviation arrivals. The 2013 Federal sequester will result in the closure of the airport's control tower and will require pilots to rely on air traffic controllers from other area airports.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 FAA Contract Tower Closure List )〕 == History == : ''see: Pounds Army Airfield for its World War II use'' The airport opened in November 1929 as Tyler Municipal Airport. During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base and renamed Pounds Field after Lieutenant Jack Windham Pounds. At the end of the war the airfield was turned over to local government for civil use and became Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. 〔Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.〕 〔Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC〕 〔Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1-57510-051-7〕 Airline flights began in the 1930s; in 1952 Delta, Braniff and Trans-Texas stopped there, but in 1957 DL and BN were gone. The Historic Aviation Memorial Museum (HAMM), a large aviation museum at the airport rented and moved into the old terminal that had been closed since 2002. 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「Tyler Pounds Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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