Range Regional Airport


Range Regional Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Hibbing, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It was formerly known as Chisholm-Hibbing Airport or Chisholm-Hibbing Municipal Airport. The airport is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial and one charter airline. Scheduled passenger service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 8,896 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 8,926 enplanements in 2009, and 11,227 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 based on 2008 enplanements, but would be considered primary commercial service based on enplanements in 2010.

Facilities and aircraft

Range Regional Airport covers an area of 1,600 acres at an elevation of 1,354 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 13/31 is 6,758 by 150 feet and 4/22 is 3,075 by 75 feet.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2014, the airport had 30,365 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per day: 82% general aviation, 9% air taxi, 9% scheduled commercial and <1% military. In January 2017, there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 40 single-engine, 2 multi-engine and 1 helicopter.

Airline and destination

Passenger

Destination map

Top Destinations

Accidents and incidents

2 January 1993: An Express Airlines Saab 340A crashed hard onto the runway at Chisholm-Hibbing Municipal Airport due to wing ice accretion. No fatalities, aircraft destroyed.
1 December 1993: Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 crashed while on approach to Chisholm-Hibbing Airport. All 18 passengers and crew on board were killed.