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Early view of Raleigh–Durham Airport. The region's first airport opened in 1929 as Raleigh Municipal Airport, south of Raleigh.It was quickly outgrown, and in 1939 the North Carolina General Assembly chartered the Raleigh–Durham Aeronautical Authority to build and operate a larger airport between Raleigh and Durham.
This is a list of airports in North Carolina (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Raleigh-Durham International Airport (IATA: RDU, ICAO: KRDU, FAA LID: RDU), the region's primary airport and the second largest in North Carolina, located northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate-40 between Raleigh and Durham, serves the city and greater Research Triangle metropolitan region, as well as much of eastern North Carolina.
Rank Rank change 22–23 Airport City served Country Passengers Annual change 1 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: Atlanta United States 104,653,451
The Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle, are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.Anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, the region is home to three major research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
The airport was used for army training in 1940 and an anti-aircraft battery was installed. "The ladies of the neighborhood lavished the soldiers with pies and cakes." according to a 12-year-old boy at the time. [5] Commercial flights were moved to the newly Army constructed Raleigh–Durham International Airport 12 miles to the north.
Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 (doing business as American Eagle Flight 3379) was a scheduled flight from Piedmont Triad International Airport to Raleigh–Durham International Airport during which a British Aerospace Jetstream crashed while executing a missed approach to the Raleigh–Durham International Airport on the evening of Tuesday, December 13, 1994.
RDU may refer to: Raleigh–Durham International Airport's IATA code; The Raleigh–Durham area; RDU-FM, a New Zealand radio station; Red Dot United, a political party in Singapore; WTKK, a radio station licensed at the time to Wilson, North Carolina, which called itself "106.1 RDU"