Jamestown Regional Airport


Jamestown Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Jamestown, a city in Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States. It is owned by the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority and was formerly known as Jamestown Municipal Airport. It is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial airline, with flights twice each weekday and once on Saturdays and Sundays. Scheduled passenger service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,769 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 3,471 enplanements in 2009 and 4,434 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011-2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Jamestown Regional Airport covers an area of 1,500 acres at an elevation of 1,500 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 13/31 is 6,502 by 100 feet and 4/22 is 5,750 by 75 feet.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2010, the airport had 37,252 aircraft operations, an average of 102 per day: 85% general aviation, 11% air taxi, 4% scheduled commercial, and <1% military. At that time there were 51 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter.

Airline and destinations

Historical Airline Service

Jamestown Aviation, Inc began five day a week service on May 17, 1978 between Jamestown and Minneapolis, Minnesota with one round trip per day with a six passenger twin-engine aircraft. This service started in response to a Northwest Airlines pilot's strike that started on April 30, 1978 and the cancellation of Crystal Shamrock Airlines service on a route from Minneapolis, Fargo, Jamestown and Bismark, North Dakota.

Statistics

RankAirportPassengersAirline
1Denver International 10,000United Express
2Devils Lake 1,000United Express