Lewistown Municipal Airport Lewistown Army Airfield | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Lewistown & Fergus County | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Lewistown, Montana | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,170 ft / 1,271 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°02′57″N 109°28′00″W / 47.04917°N 109.46667°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lewistown Municipal Airport (IATA: LWT, ICAO: KLWT, FAA LID: LWT) is two miles southwest of Lewistown, in Fergus County, Montana. It is owned by the city and county.[1]
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 596 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[2] 1,049 in 2009 and 704 in 2010.[3] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires 2,500 enplanements per year).[4]
Scheduled air service temporarily ceased on March 8, 2008, when Big Sky Airlines ended operations in bankruptcy. Great Lakes Airlines was given USDOT approval to take over Essential Air Service (EAS)[5] and flights began in 2009. Service was then provided under EAS contract by Silver Airways (formerly Gulfstream International Airlines) until July 2013. EAS subsidies were terminated on July 15, 2013 due to subsidy per passenger exceeding $1000, leaving Lewistown without scheduled air service.[6]
- ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for LWT PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.
- ^ "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
- ^ "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on September 27, 2012.
- ^ "Great Lakes prepares for Montana routes". Sidney Herald. Montana. December 30, 2007. Retrieved February 3, 2008.
- ^ Falstad, Jan. Lewistown, Miles City losing airline subsidies, Billings Gazette, June 13, 2013, Retrieved 2013-06-13