Ford Airport (Iron Mountain)

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Coordinates: 45°49′06″N 088°06′52″W / 45.81833, -88.11444

Ford Airport
IATA: IMT – ICAO: KIMT – FAA: IMT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Dickinson County
Serves		Iron Mountain, Michigan
Elevation AMSL		1,182 ft / 360 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	6,500	1,981	Asphalt
13/31	3,812	1,162	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			7,606
Sources: airport web site^[1] and FAA^[2]

Ford Airport (IATA: IMT, ICAO: KIMT, FAA LID: IMT) is located in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan, three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Iron Mountain, a city in Dickinson County, Michigan, United States.^[2] The airport offers scheduled service from one commercial airline which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Ford Airport serves the greater Dickinson County area which includes the cities of Iron Mountain, Kingsford and Norway in Michigan and the bordering Wisconsin communities of Aurora, Florence and Niagara. Its service area also includes portions of Iron and Menominee counties in Michigan and Florence and Marinette counties in Wisconsin.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Airlines and destinations
- 2.1 Charter
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Ford Airport covers an area of 720 acres (291 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 measuring 6,500 x 150 ft. (1,981 x 46 m) and 13/31 measuring 3,812 x 75 ft. (1,162 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending April 18, 2007, the airport had 7,606 aircraft operations, an average of 20 per day: 57% air taxi, 27% scheduled commercial, 16% general aviation and <1% military.^[2]