Dane County Regional Airport
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Dane County Regional Airport Truax Field |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Dane County | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Madison, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Madison, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 887 ft / 270 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°08′23″N 089°20′15″W / 43.13972°N 89.33750°W | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.MSNairport.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations (2016) | 79,731 |
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| Based aircraft (2017) | 167 |
| Departure Enplanements (12 months ending Dec '16) | 896,000 |
Dane County Regional Airport (DCRA) (IATA: MSN, ICAO: KMSN, FAA LID: MSN) (Truax Field) is a civil-military airport located six miles northeast of downtown Madison, the capital of Wisconsin. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a small-hub primary commercial service facility.
DCRA has three runways and in 2016 it served more than 1.8 million passengers. MSN serves American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines. These airlines have non-stop flights to twelve hubs with over 95 departures and arrivals daily to and from destinations such as Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York City, and Orlando. Delta and United provide service with Airbus A319s and A320s as well as Boeing 737s and 757s which are among the largest aircraft operating at the airport. Frontier has introduced the Airbus A320neo to the airport, an aircraft with one of the quietest engines in the US commercial fleet.
The airport was renamed Truax Field and activated as a U.S. Army Air Corps airfield in June 1942 during World War II. During the war, it was used by the Army Air Corps Eastern Technical Training Center, a major school operating at Truax AAF for training radio operators and mechanics, and later expanded to training in radar operations, control tower operations, and other communications fields for the Army Airways Communication Service. A unit established in 1943 trained radio operators and mechanics on B-29 Superfortress communications equipment. The host unit on the airfield was the 334th (later 3508th) Army Air Corps Base Unit. On September 17, 1945, the airfield's mission was changed to that of a separation center and it was closed as an active AAF airfield on November 30, 1945.
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