Airport type Public Location Gwinn, Michigan Website www.sawyerairport.com Code MQT Phone +1 906-346-3308 | Serves Marquette, Michigan Elevation AMSL 1,221 ft / 372 m 1/19 12,366 Elevation 372 m | |
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Address 125 Ave G, Gwinn, MI 49841, USA Owner Marquette County, Michigan | ||
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Sawyer International Airport (IATA: MQT, ICAO: KSAW, FAA LID: SAW) is a county owned public use airport in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. It is located 17 nautical miles (20 mi; 31 km) south of the central business district of the city of Marquette. 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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- Sawyer international airport
- Facilities and aircraft
- Airlines and destinations
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This commercial and general aviation airport is located near Gwinn, on a portion of the former K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, which closed in September 1995. The airport opened for passenger service in September 1999, serving Marquette and the surrounding area. It replaced the former Marquette County Airport (IATA: MQT, ICAO: KMQT, FAA LID: MQT) which closed the same year.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA), this airport is assigned SAW by the FAA and MQT by the IATA (which assigned SAW to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey). The airport's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) identifier is KSAW.
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Facilities and aircraft
Sawyer International Airport covers an area of 2,100 acres (850 ha). It has a single asphalt/concrete runway, 12,366 by 150 feet (3,769 by 46 m), originally re-designed in 1959 to accommodate B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2015, the airport had 17,208 aircraft operations, an average of 47 per day: 42% general aviation, 29% air taxi, 16% military and 13% scheduled commercial service. In March 2017, there were 39 aircraft based at this airport: 33 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 1 jet and 1 helicopter.
There is an industrial park, the Telkite Technology Park, adjacent to the airport, with 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land and 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) of space in a Michigan Renaissance Zone, which exempts the tenant or owner from the majority of state and local taxes.
The airport is home to the Marquette County Aviation Wall of Honor which features many influential pilots and engineers.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service at this airport: