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In 1960, Springfield voters approved a $600,000 bond issue to build a new terminal, which opened in October 1964. This terminal was expanded multiple times in the following decades as passenger numbers grew at an accelerating rate. The airport was eventually renamed the Springfield-Branson National Airport.
This is a list of airports in Illinois (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 previously public-use airports, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
A new terminal was opened at the airport in 2007 with 10 gates, expandable to 60, and runways can accommodate the Boeing 747 and large military aircraft. Springfield has a secondary, smaller airport, Downtown Airport which is not served by any passenger airlines and is used mostly by smaller general aviation airplanes.
The airport is home to Capital Airport Air National Guard Station, a 91-acre (370,000 m 2) facility on land leased from the Springfield Airport Authority (SAA). It is home to the 183d Fighter Wing (183 FW), an Illinois Air National Guard unit operationally gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC) and State Headquarters, Illinois Air National Guard.
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The airport received an updated master plan in 2016. [7] The airport was praised for record-breaking fuel sales during the onset of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. [8] The airport was named the 2023 Ohio Airport of the Year by the Ohio Aviation Association. [8] [9] The airport was formerly home to the Ohio Center for Precision Agriculture. [10]
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