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Bourke B. Hickenlooper (1896–1971), Lieutenant Governor, 29th Governor of Iowa, 4-term U.S. Senator [5] Benny Johnson, conservative political commentator and columnist; Sami Scheetz (born 1996), member of the Iowa House of Representatives; Paul Tibbets, pilot of B-29 Enola Gay that dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan; lived in Cedar ...
The Cedar Rapids Airport was renamed The Eastern Iowa Airport in 1997 to reflect its status as a regional airport. In 2008 the airport enplaned and deplaned one million passengers for the first time in its history; it set a record in 2017 with 1,143,335 passengers. [8] In 2019, CID set an all-time record with 1,342,496 passengers served. [9] [10]
Current Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett announced the creation of a commission to rename a major Cedar Rapids landmark in honor of Canney. [2] Possible choices for the memorial which have been mentioned include an airport terminal at Eastern Iowa Airport , a former federal court which is being re-purposed to become Cedar Rapids' future city hall ...
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By Catherine Lucey DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - As he sat in a crippled airliner, Ron May braced his head between his legs and prayed for his wife, who was seven months' pregnant with their first child.
A professional photographer died in a horrible accident by backing up into an airplane propeller while snapping photos at a Kansas airfield. Amanda Gallagher, 37, was taking photos of people ...
This is a list of airports in Iowa (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.
The airport has no scheduled airline service; the closest airline airport is The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, about 19 miles (31 km) northwest. In the 1920s Iowa City was on the original transcontinental air route, flown by Boeing Air Transport, a United predecessor.