St. Paul Downtown Airport

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St. Paul Downtown Airport Holman Field

IATA: STP - ICAO: KSTP
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Metropolitan Airports Commission
Serves		St. Paul, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL		705 ft (214.9 m)
Coordinates		44°56′04″N, 93°03′36″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	6,711	2,046	Asphalt
13/31	4,115	1,254	Asphalt
9/27	3,657	1,115	Asphalt

St. Paul Downtown Airport (IATA: STP, ICAO: KSTP), also known as Holman Field, is an airport just across the Mississippi River from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is one of the Twin Cities "reliever airports" operated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The airport has three runways and serves aircraft operated by corporations in the local area, a flight training school and the Minnesota Army National Guard aviation unit.

St. Paul Downtown Airport

The airport is home to an installation of the Minnesota Army National Guard. A dike to protect the airport from the nearby river is under consideration and the National Guard has stated that they may leave if the dike is not constructed in a timely manner.

The Holman Field Administration Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

The airport was used to outfit B-24 bombers during World War II. The terminal at St. Paul Downtown airport was used as a backdrop in scenes from the movie Slaughterhouse-Five.

Recently local debate has ensued over plans to build a floodwall around the airport. Three times in the last thirteen years the airport has been flooded due to its proximity to the Mississippi River. Supporters do not want to deal with the future inconvenience of having to deal with the flood again, while critics say that the proposed wall would ruin views and make the airport "ugly".

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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^[1].