Sawyer International Airport

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Sawyer International Airport
IATA: MQT – ICAO: KSAW – FAA: SAW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Marquette County
Serves		Marquette, Michigan
Location		Gwinn, Michigan
Elevation AMSL		1,221 ft / 372 m
Coordinates		46°21′13″N, 087°23′43″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	12,370	3,770	Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			39,440
Based aircraft			44
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Sawyer International Airport (IATA: MQT, ICAO: KSAW, FAA LID: SAW) is a public airport located 17 miles (27 km) south of the central business district of Marquette, a city in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. The airport is publicly owned by Marquette County.^[1]

This commercial and general aviation airport is located near Gwinn, Michigan on a portion of the former K.I. Sawyer AFB, which closed in September 1995. The airport opened for passenger service in September 1999, serving Marquette and the surrounding area. It replaced the former Marquette County Airport (IATA: MQT, ICAO: KMQT, FAA LID: MQT) which closed the same year.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Sawyer International is assigned SAW by the FAA and MQT by the IATA (which had previously assigned SAW to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey). The airport's ICAO identifier is KSAW. ^[2] ^[3]

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

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Sawyer International Airport covers an area of 2,100 acres (850 ha). It has a single asphalt/concrete runway, 12,370 x 150 ft. (3,770 x 46 m),^[1] originally designed for B-52 bombers.

For 12-month period ending August 31, 2006, the airport had 39,440 aircraft operations, an average of 108 per day: 45% general aviation (17,602), 35% air taxi (13,612), 19% scheduled commercial (7,401) and 2% military (825). There are 44 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single engine (36), 14% multi engine (6), 2% jet aircraft (1) and 2% military (1).^[1]