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26-488: The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a "primary commercial service" airport. Federal Aviation Administration records show 76,168 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 73,841 in 2009, and 74,357 in 2010. The airport has been expanding to meet goals in the Tyler Master Plan; on August 17, 2002, the airport opened a new terminal building, doubling its space. Tyler

52-555: A Texarkana – Tyler – Austin route. In 1989, competition had resumed on the Tyler-Dallas/Fort Worth route: American Eagle Saab 340s and Delta Connection Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirantes operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) on behalf of Delta Air Lines . The Official Airline Guide lists fourteen weekday flights between Tyler and DFW. By 1991 Delta Connection (ASA) Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and EMB-110 Bandeirantes were flying to DFW. In 1995, Continental Express

78-499: A commuter airline, had replaced Conquest with nonstop Metroliners to Austin. Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines also offered flights from Tyler with Airbus A320 mainline jetliner service nonstop to Denver; these flights lasted from July 2019 to April 2020 with the A320 being the largest aircraft ever to operate scheduled passenger airline service from the airport. The Historic Aviation Memorial Museum , an aviation museum located at

104-400: A possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3 . Featuring a more modern design with cabin pressurization , the 240 series made some inroads as a commercial airliner, and had a long development cycle that produced various civil and military variants. Though reduced in numbers by attrition, various forms of the " Convairliners " continue to fly in the 21st century. The design began with

130-505: A requirement by American Airlines for an airliner to replace its Douglas DC-3s . Convair's original design, the unpressurised Model 110, was a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, with 30 seats. It was powered by Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engines . It had a tricycle landing gear , and a ventral airstair for passenger boarding. The prototype Model 110, registration NX90653, first flew on July 8, 1946. By this time, American Airlines had changed

156-602: A routing of Houston Hobby Airport - Longview - Tyler - Paris, TX - McAlester, OK - Tulsa - Joplin - Kansas City - Des Moines - Waterloo, IA - Mason City, IA - Rochester, MN - Minneapolis/St. Paul. Mid-Continent was then acquired by and merged into Braniff International Airways which in the spring of 1953 was operating DC-3 flights on a daily roundtrip routing of Houston Hobby Airport - Longview - Tyler - Tulsa - Joplin - Kansas City - Omaha - Minneapolis/St. Paul before discontinuing all service to Tyler later that same year. Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) also began serving Tyler in

182-846: A subsidiary of Metro Airlines , was operating seven nonstop de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter flights to DFW, while TI had two nonstops with Convair 600s. According to the February 1, 1976 Official Airline Guide , Texas International was operating direct Convair 600 service to Tyler from Austin, Houston (IAH), Midland/Odessa, Shreveport and Wichita Falls. This OAG also lists nineteen weekday Metroflight Twin Otter flights being operated into Tyler, including nine nonstops from Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), nine nonstops from Longview and one nonstop from Nacogdoches with this latter flight operating direct service from Houston (IAH) and Lufkin. By 1978, Texas International had pulled out of Tyler. In 1979, Metroflight Airlines

208-608: Is a large center for general aviation , with three public parking lots for general aviation. The airport opened in November 1929 as Tyler Municipal Airport . During World War II , the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base and renamed Pounds Field after Lieutenant Jack Windham Pounds. At the end of the war, the airfield was turned over to local government for civil use and became Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. Airline service began in

234-707: Is an inventory of U.S. aviation infrastructure assets. NPIAS was developed and now maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It identifies existing and proposed airports that are significant to national air transportation in the U.S., and thus eligible to receive federal grants under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). It also includes estimates of the amount of AIP money needed to fund infrastructure development projects that will bring these airports up to current design standards and add capacity to congested airports. The FAA

260-473: Is required to provide Congress with a five-year estimate of AIP-eligible development every two years. The NPIAS contains all commercial service airports , all reliever airports , and selected general aviation airports. This aviation -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Convair 600 10 (Canadair) The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as

286-651: The 12-month period ending July 31, 2011, the airport had 48,677 aircraft operations, average 133 per day: 83% general aviation , 14% air taxi , 2% airline, and 1% military; 152 aircraft were then based at the airport: 60% single-engine, 22% jet, 16% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter . American Eagle, the regional air carrier subsidiary of American Airlines subsidiary, operates Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jets on its nonstop flights to DFW with this American Eagle service from Tyler being operated by SkyWest Airlines . National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems ( NPIAS )

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312-765: The 1930s. Tyler was listed in Delta Air Lines timetables by 1936 on a Dallas-Atlanta multi-stop route via Shreveport and other stops. In 1952, Delta Douglas DC-3s flew eastbound Fort Worth – Dallas Love Field – Tyler – Longview, TX – Shreveport – Monroe, LA – Jackson, MS – Meridian, MS – Selma, AL – Montgomery, AL – Columbus, GA – Atlanta as well as westbound Atlanta – Columbus, GA – Montgomery – Meridian – Hattiesburg, MS – New Orleans – Baton Rouge – Alexandria, LA – Shreveport – Tyler – Dallas Love Field – Fort Worth. Delta had competition to Dallas Love Field operated by Trans-Texas Airways , also with DC-3s. Delta left Tyler in 1956. Mid-Continent Airlines

338-800: The 1940s; its Douglas DC-3s flew between Dallas Love Field , Beaumont/Port Arthur, and Houston Hobby Airport . In 1952, TTa flew three DC-3s a day to Beaumont/Port Arthur via Lufkin, Palestine, and Nacogdoches, with one flight continuing on to Galveston and Houston. Convair 240 propeller aircraft and then Convair 600 turboprops later took over. In 1966, TTa Convair 240s and DC-3s flew nonstop to Dallas, while Convair 240s flew direct to Houston and New Orleans. By 1968 TTa had begun Convair 600 turboprop flights at Tyler. Trans-Texas then changed its name to Texas International Airlines (TI); in 1970, TI Convair 600s and Beechcraft 99 turboprops flew nonstop to Dallas with direct Convair 600 service to Memphis and New Orleans. Also in 1970, commuter air carrier Air Texas

364-497: The CV-340 and CV-440, the design reached the limit of piston-engine performance, and future development centered on conversion to turboprop power. Convair delivered the first production Convairliner to American on February 29, 1948. They delivered a total of 75 to American—and another 50 to Western Airlines , Continental Airlines , Pan American Airways , Lufthansa , KLM , Swissair , Sabena , and Trans Australia Airlines . A CV-240

390-642: The Super 240, calling it the CV-340. United ordered 55, and more US orders came from Braniff, Continental, Delta, Northeast, and National. Other orders came from abroad, and the CV-340 was popular in South America. The CV-340 earned a reputation for reliability and profitability, and was developed into the CV-440 Metropolitan, the final piston-engined variant of the Convairliners. Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter ,

416-418: The airport, rented and moved into the former Tyler passenger terminal that had been closed since 2002. The museum has a number of military jet fighters on display among other exhibits, and also flies and maintains two Russian-manufactured MiG-17F jets based at the airport. The airport covers 1,200 acres (490 ha; 4.9 km) at an elevation of 544 ft (166 m). It has three asphalt runways: For

442-542: The requirements to include pressurization and deemed the design too small. Convair used the first prototype for 240 series development work before it had the plane broken up in 1947. To meet the requirements of airlines for a pressurized airliner, Convair produced a revised design—the Model 240. This had a longer but thinner fuselage than the Model 110, accommodating 40 passengers in the first pressurized, twin-engined airliner. The 240 first flew on March 16, 1947. The Model 240

468-548: The service to Tyler becoming United Express . United Express ceased service to Tyler in April 2016 due to reported lower demand from the energy sector for flights to Tyler. In the mid-1990s, Conquest Airlines , a commuter airline, flew Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners nonstop to both Austin and San Antonio. Dallas Express Airlines, another commuter airline, was flying twin-engined Pipers nonstop from DAL. By 2000, Austin Express , also

494-548: Was continuing to operate Twin Otter service between Tyler and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Also in 1985, Eastern Express operated by Metro Airlines on behalf of Eastern Air Lines was operating three flights a day from Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) with DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft including one nonstop flight and two direct one stop flights both via Longview. Other airline service in 1985 included Air Spirit, an independent commuter airline, flying Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante turboprops nonstop to Austin as part of

520-400: Was flying Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias to IAH with three weekday nonstops via a code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines . By 1999 Continental Express had replaced this Brasilia service with smaller Beechcraft 1900Ds with four weekday nonstops. Continental Express began regional jet service to Tyler in the 2000s and in 2012 Continental completed its merger with United Airlines , with

546-467: Was followed by the Model 340, which had a longer fuselage, longer-span wings, and more powerful engines. The 340 first flew on October 5, 1951. In 1954, in an attempt to compete with turboprop -powered airliners such as the Vickers Viscount , Convair produced the Model 440 Metropolitan, with more streamlined cowlings, new engine exhausts, and better cabin soundproofing. As the "Super 240" evolved into

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572-457: Was operating nonstop Beechcraft 99 service between the airport and Austin (AUS), Dallas Love Field (DAL) and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH). In 1974, all TI flights at Tyler were being operated with Convair 600 turboprops with three weekday nonstops to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), as well as direct service to Houston and Memphis. In 1975, Texas International had competition to Dallas/Fort Worth as commuter air carrier Metroflight Airlines ,

598-540: Was operating the only flights to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) as an independent commuter air carrier with nonstop de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and Short 330 service as well as direct Twin Otters to IAH via Longview and/or Nacogdoches. By 1981, the airline was operating 12 weekday nonstops between Tyler and Dallas/Fort Worth with Short 330s and Twin Otters. Metroflight then became an American Eagle carrier operating code sharing flights for American Airlines , and in 1985

624-402: Was operating two daily southbound DC-3 flights, one with a routing of a Minneapolis/St. Paul - Sioux Falls - Sioux City - Omaha - Kansas City - Tulsa - McAlester, OK - Paris, TX - Tyler - Longview, TX - Houston Hobby Airport and the other with a routing of Minneapolis/St. Paul - Omaha - Kansas City - Tulsa - Muskogee - Tyler - Houston Hobby Airport as well as a daily northbound DC-3 flight with

650-412: Was serving Tyler by 1947 with Douglas DC-3 aircraft operating a daily southbound routing of Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN - Sioux Falls - Sioux City - Omaha - St. Joseph, MO - Kansas City - Joplin - Tulsa - Muskogee, OK - Tyler - Houston Hobby Airport as well as a daily northbound routing of Houston Hobby Airport - Tyler - Muskogee - Tulsa - Kansas City - Des Moines . By 1952 Mid-Continent

676-478: Was the first private aircraft used in a United States presidential campaign. In 1960, John F. Kennedy used a CV-240 named Caroline (after his daughter) during his campaign. This aircraft is now preserved in the National Air and Space Museum . After aborted negotiations with TWA and Eastern for "Super 240" orders, Convair temporarily halted 240 series production. In response to a United inquiry, Convair redesigned

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