Alpena County Regional Airport

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Alpena County Regional Airport (IATA: APN, ICAO: KAPN, FAA LID: APN) is a county owned, public use, joint civil-military airport in Alpena County, Michigan, United States. The airport is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) west of the central business district of Alpena, off of M-32 . It straddles the boundary between Maple Ridge Township on the north and Wilson Township on the south. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline, an affiliate of Delta Connection, with freight services provided by an affiliate of FedEx Feeder.

It is said to be the "Proud home of Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center," the host unit of the Michigan Air National Guard's Alpena Air National Guard Base.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 7,519 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 7,638 enplanements in 2009, and 8,737 in 2010. 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 non-hub primary commercial service facility.


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Facilities and aircraft

Alpena County Regional Airport covers an area of 3,084 acres (1,248 ha) at an elevation of 690 feet (210 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with concrete surfaces: 1/19 is 9,001 by 150 feet (2,744 × 46 m) and 7/25 is 5,028 by 100 feet (1,533 × 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2015, the airport had 5,902 aircraft operations (down from 9,790 in 2010), an average of 16 per day: 44% military, 33% general aviation, and 23% scheduled commercial. In May 2017, there were 20 aircraft based at this airport: 12 single-engine, 6 multi-engine, 1 helicopter and 1 military.


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Airline and destinations

Passenger

1^ Operated by SkyWest Airlines

Cargo operations

2 ^ Operated by CSA Air


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Other history

Several scenes of the film Die Hard 2 were shot there. The location was chosen in part because there was a need for snow, and the producers expected Alpena to produce. However, due to a lack of snowfall, artificial snow had to be used. Consequently, other filming was done at Kincheloe Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.


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