Brookings Regional Airport, formerly Brookings Municipal Airport, is in Brookings, in Brookings County, South Dakota. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation airport. The airport has had no airline service since September 2009 when the United States Department of Transportation ended the subsidy for its Essential Air Service.

Facilities

Brookings Regional Airport covers 576 acres (233 ha) at an elevation of 1,648 feet (502 m). It has two asphalt runways: 12/30 is 6,000 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m) and 17/35 is 3,600 by 60 feet (1,097 x 18 m). In 2020 the airport had 32,025 aircraft operations, average 88 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi, and <1% military. 64 aircraft were then based at the airport: 56 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, and 3 glider. In 2012 the city of Brookings completed a $19 million reconstruction project, including realigning and lengthening the runways.

Airlines and destinations

No airline service is scheduled. The first airline flights were Western DC-3s in 1950; Western pulled out in 1959. Braniff arrived in 1953-54; North Central replaced Braniff in 1957 and successor Republic left in approximately late 1981.

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