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John Glenn Columbus International Airport (IATA: CMH, ICAO: KCMH, FAA LID: CMH) is an international airport located 6 miles (9.7 km) east of downtown Columbus, Ohio.Formerly known as Port Columbus International Airport, it is managed by the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which also oversees operations at Rickenbacker International Airport and Bolton Field.
The facility opened in June 1942 as Lockbourne Army Airfield, named for the nearby village of Lockbourne. [5] [6] Soon renamed the Northeastern Training Center of the Army Air Corps, it provided basic pilot training and military support; it also trained Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to fly B-17 bombers and glider pilots to fly the Waco CG-4A.
FedEx Express operates the world's largest cargo air fleet with more than 650 aircraft, [43] and is the largest operator of the Airbus A300, ATR 42, Cessna 208, DC-10/MD-10, and the MD-11. [ citation needed ] The company took delivery of the last Boeing 727 built in September 1984 and the last A300/A310 built in July 2007. [ 44 ]
"Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 2008 and 2009". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 2005 and 2006". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 1990, 1995, and 2000". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
For the 12-month period ending ending June 7, 2022, the airport had 26,932 aircraft operations, average 74 per day. It was nearly 100% general aviation as well as <1% air taxi and <1% military. For the same time period, 64 aircraft are based at this airport: 57 single-engine and 6 multi-engine airplanes as well as 1 helicopter.
Main atrium. On December 16, 1960, the jet age arrived in Cincinnati when a Delta Air Lines Convair 880 from Miami completed the first scheduled jet flight. The airport needed to expand and build more modern terminals and other facilities; the original Terminal A was expanded and renovated.
In August 1975, the US Civil Aeronautics Board, the now-defunct Federal agency that, at the time, regulated almost all airline service, approved Wright Air Lines to fly from Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport to Columbus via Don Scott Airport. [8] At the time, Wright flew 44-passenger piston-powered Convair 440 aircraft.
In 1981 Emery Worldwide completed an air freight hub sortation facility next to Runway 6L–24R. Emery added to the facility until the early 1990s, making it one of the world's largest airfreight facilities at the time. A $50 million renovation of the airport's terminal building, designed by Levin Porter Associates, [12] was completed in 1989 ...