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A joint civil-military airport, MSP is home to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport Joint Air Reserve Station, supporting both Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard flight operations. Units stationed there include the 934th Airlift Wing (934 AW). The airport is located in Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory.
Curtiss Field, a city park named for the airport, still occupies a portion of the site, [3] while a nearby restaurant displays several photos of the old landing strip. [4] In 2008 St. Paul author Roger Bergerson published a comprehensive history of Curtiss Northwest Airport, which is available at online retailers, local bookstores and public ...
Speedway Field was the original name for the airfield that evolved into Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the twelfth busiest airport in the United States; it was also the largest hub for Northwest Airlines [1] and is the second largest hub for Delta Air Lines, Northwest's successor.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, commuter airline Lake State Airways offered scheduled airline service between the St. Paul Downtown Airport and Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota. It cost $5USD for a one-way ticket between the two airports, and $10 round-trip. [5]
Barry Street, Cedar Lake Road, Westside Drive: Northbound exit signed Barry Street and Cedar Lake Road; southbound exit signed Westside Drive and Cedar Lake Road: Golden Valley: 7.785: 12.529-I-394 – Minneapolis: I-394 exit 5B: 8.322: 13.393-CR 40 (Glenwood Avenue) 8.902: 14.326: 8B: MN 55 (Olson Memorial Highway) SPUI interchange ...
The Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport Trams consist of a pair of cable-drawn automated people movers that serve travelers of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport. Both were constructed by the Poma-Otis Transit Company of Farmington, Connecticut [1] and are operated under the direction of the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
On November 15, 2010, Compass Airlines Flight 5887 bound for Missoula, Montana from Minneapolis/St Paul with 76 passengers and four crew on board was forced to return to Minneapolis after the aircraft received substantial damage when it collided with a flock of birds. The plane landed 22 minutes after departure; no injuries to passengers were ...
This was also not the first time that a Northwest Martin 2-0-2 suffered an accident in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area; a little over a year and a half prior, on August 29, 1948, Flight 421, also flown by a 2-0-2, crashed on approach to the Twin Cities Airport in Fountain City, Wisconsin, 4.1 mi (6.6 km) northwest of Winona ...