Four Corners Regional Airport

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Four Corners Regional Airport
FMN airport logo.jpg
IATA: FMN – ICAO: KFMN – FAA: FMN
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator City of Farmington
Location Farmington, New Mexico
Elevation AMSL 5,506 ft / 1,678.2 m
Coordinates 36°44′28″N 108°13′48″W / 36.74111°N 108.23°W / 36.74111; -108.23Coordinates: 36°44′28″N 108°13′48″W / 36.74111°N 108.23°W / 36.74111; -108.23
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 6,500 1,981 Asphalt
7/25 6,704 2,043 Asphalt
FAA airport diagram

Four Corners Regional Airport (IATA: FMN, ICAO: KFMN, FAA LID: FMN) is a public airport located 1 miles (2 km) northwest of the central business district (CBD) of Farmington, a city in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Formerly Mesa Airlines provided flights to Albuquerque, however these were discontinued in 2007. The City of Farmington is currently in negotiations with New Mexico Airlines and Great Lakes Airlines to take over Mesa's service to Albuquerque.

Mesa Airlines was headquartered in Farmington,[1] but eventualy moved out of Farmington, canceling their last flight out of Farmington in August 2007.[2] However, even after Mesa's headquarters moved, their pilot development program remained in Farmington.[3]

Over the years, Four Corners Regional Airport has been served by the original Frontier Airlines,[4] Sunwest Airlines, Air Midwest,[2] Aspen Airways,[5] Pioneer Airlines,[citation needed] Trans Colorado Airlines,[citation needed] America West Express,[6] Continental Express,[7] United Express,[8] American Eagle,[citation needed] and USAirways Express.[citation needed]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Great Lakes Airlines[9] Denver, Kingman, Page, Prescott

[edit] References

  1. ^ "US files 1st bias suits under ailen law". The Dallas Morning News (A. H. Belo Corporation). 1988-01-13. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3CFCECF7A6C5B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  2. ^ a b "Quick Takes". Regional Aviation News. 2007-06-04. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30949334_ITM. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  3. ^ Papich, Bill (1998-07-05). "Residents: Training Planes Too Noisy". Albuquerque Journal (T.H. Lang). http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-415963_ITM. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  4. ^ "Frontier Airlines Ends Some Routes". The New York Times. 1984-06-28. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/28/business/frontier-airlines-ends-some-routes.html. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  5. ^ "COMPANY NEWS; Mesa Air to Buy Aspen Air Routes". The New York Times. 1989-12-27. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/27/business/company-news-mesa-air-to-buy-aspen-air-routes.html. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  6. ^ Oestmann, Eric (1992-09-04). "Airlines to offer lower fares to local passengers". Kingman Daily Miner (Google News Archives): pp. A1, A3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A-MNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ulYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6829,9699023&dq=america-west-express+farmington. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  7. ^ "Continental has plans to cut jobs, flights". Rome News-Tribune (Google News Archives): pp. 9–A. 1991-08-01. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TUsHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NTYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3167,5176947&dq=continental-express+farmington. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  8. ^ "Emergency landing made in cornfield". Spokane Chronicle (Google News Archives): pp. A6. 1989-01-20. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RrgSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7_kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5734,2368312&dq=united-express+farmington. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  9. ^ "Timetable". Great Lakes Airlines. 2009-06-03. pp. 6–7. http://flygreatlakes.com/time_table/doc_files/time_table.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 

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