Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 43°31′48″N 072°56′59″W / 43.53, -72.94972

Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport


IATA: RUT – ICAO: KRUT – FAA: RUT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		State of Vermont
Serves		Rutland, Vermont
Location		North Clarendon
Elevation AMSL		787 ft / 240 m
Website		www.FlyRutlandVT.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
13/31	3,170	966	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			22,735
Based aircraft			57
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport^[2]^[3] (IATA: RUT, ICAO: KRUT, FAA LID: RUT), formerly known as Rutland State Airport, is a state-owned public-use airport located in North Clarendon, five miles (8 km) south of the central business district of Rutland, a city in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.^[1] Scheduled commercial service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service and provided by Cape Air, with three flights daily on nine-passenger Cessna 402 aircraft to Boston.^[4]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,689 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004.^[5] In the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2007-2011) it was a categorized as a commercial service airport, which requires at least 2,500 passenger boardings per year.^[6] However, enplanements declined to 2,218 in 2005 and 2,245 in 2006 which caused it to be categorized as a general aviation airport.^[5]

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

[edit] Name change

Legislation was introduced into the Vermont Senate in January 2007 to change the official name of the airport to Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport.^[7] The state agency of transportation, meanwhile, had plans to change the name to Rutland/Southwest Vermont Regional Airport. This provoked some opposition from the town of Bennington on the grounds that the William H. Morse State Airport (located in the town), is currently known as "Southwest Vermont's Airport". The agency indicated that it intended to go ahead with the name change anyway, claiming that Bennington's opposition came too late in the process.^[8] However, the agency changed the name to Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport on August 15, 2007.^[9]^[10]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport covers an area of 345 acres (140 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 measuring 5,000 x 100 ft. (1,524 x 30 m) and 13/31 measuring 3,170 x 75 ft. (966 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2007, the airport had 22,735 aircraft operations, an average of 62 per day: 71% general aviation, 20% air taxi, 5% scheduled commercial and 4% military. There are 57 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 4% jet, 2% helicopters and 2% ultralight.^[1]