Ford Airport

Ford Airport may refer to:

Ford Airport (Dearborn)

Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, United States was one of the first modern airports in the world. It operated from 1924 to 1947, and the site is now part of Ford Motor Company's Dearborn Proving Ground. The airport was about 360 acres (1.5 km²) in size.

This airport saw many world and U.S. "firsts": the first U.S. airport hotel, the first concrete runways, first U.S. scheduled passenger service, first contracted airmail service, first radio control for a commercial flight, first U.S. passenger terminal. The buildings were designed by architect Albert Kahn and are considered to have greatly influenced the design of airports throughout the U.S. The original aircraft hangars still exist and are in use as part of the current Ford testing facilities.

Latitude and Longitude: 42°18'0.42"N, 83°13'14.75"W

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Ford Airport (Iron Mountain)

Ford Airport (IATA: IMT, ICAO: KIMT, FAA LID: IMT) is a county owned, public use airport in Dickinson County, Michigan, United States. It is located three miles west of the central business district of Iron Mountain, in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The airport offers scheduled service by one commercial airline which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. It is also a hub for FedEx Feeder operator CSA Air.

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.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,998 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,475 enplanements in 2009, and 6,943 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a non-primary regional commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).