Piney-Pinecreek THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Warroad Roseau h Hallock Aviation in Minnesota as an Aeronautics office that insures the safety of the state’s aviation system. Just like the Baudette highway department works to keep the roads and highways safe, the Aeronautics office Karlstad International Falls works with the aviation community to make the aviation system safe. The Aeronautics Stephen office helps airports keep runways and taxiways paved and markings painted, lights to identify Littlefork Grygla the runways and taxiways, navigation equipment so that pilots can fly from one airport to another, Warren Big Falls Waskish weather information for flying, maintenance equipment to plow snow and mow grass around Thief River Falls runways, and promote aviation so that we continue to have an influx of qualified people to keep Orr Crookston Grand Marais-Cook Co Red Lake Falls Northome our state’s aviation system successful and thriving. Cook Tower Ely Bigfork
Fosston Fertile HOW IS THE AVIATION SYSTEM FUNDED? Bagley Bemidji Bowstring Eveleth-Virginia The Aeronautics Office is funded from aviation user fees to provide services and support to the Chisholm-Hibbing Norman Co/Ada/Twin ValleyMahnomen Co Silver Bay Minnesota aviation system. The aviation user fees are generated from: Grand Rapids/Itasca Co Walker
Remer Two Harbors Longville • aviation gasoline and jet fuel tax Hawley Hill City Moorhead Park Rapids Detroit Lakes Duluth • aircraft registration Backus Pine River Duluth Sky Harbor Cloquet-Carlton Co • airflight property tax (which is a tax paid by airlines in lieu of other taxes on their flight Pelican Rapids Perham McGregor property such as aircraft and aircraft parts). Aitkin Wadena Brainerd Moose Lake-Carlton Co Staples East Gull Lk Fergus Falls Henning
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Elbow Lake Little Falls-Morrison Co Long Prairie Herman Alexandria Mora Wheaton Milaca Sauk Centre Rush City Commercial (8) Glenwood Morris Starbuck St. Cloud Princeton Cambridge Brooten Paved w /Seaplane B ase (5)
Ortonville Benson Paynesville Paved ( 100) Appleton Maple Lake Murdock Forest Lake Buffalo Willmar Anoka Co/Blaine Lighted T urf (15) Litchfield Crystal Lac Qui Parle Co Montevideo-Chippewa Co Lake Elmo Turf (7) Winsted St. Paul Downtown Minneapolis-St.Paul Int'l Hutchinson South St. Paul Flying Cloud Canby Granite Falls Olivia Hector Glencoe
Airlake Red Wing Redwood Falls Marshall Le Sueur
Tyler New Ulm Faribault Tracy Springfield Sleepy Eye Mankato
Owatonna Waseca Winona Pipestone Slayton St. James Dodge Center Windom Rochester
Rushford
Wells Worthington Albert Lea Preston - Fillmore Co Luverne Jackson Fairmont Austin Blue Earth Houston Co
Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics
Mail Stop 410 222 East Plato Boulevard Saint Paul, Minnesota 55107-1618
651.234.7200 ph 651.234.7261 fax www.mndot.gov
Military 5% Aviation Air Carrier 20% is an important part of the transportation system in Minnesota. It consists of 3 distinct parts: general aviation, scheduled air carriers, and military. General aviation makes up the largest part of aviation in any state. Your local airport socially and economically impacts your community in many ways that General Aviation 75% make it a better place to live. Some common uses of general aviation flying and airports include the following:
B U S I N E S S AGRICULTURE General aviation GOVERNMENTS is the largest part of the industry. • Transport business people • Law enforcement • Spraying and seeding
• Customer visits • Search and rescue • Field and crop inspection
• Economic development • Crime surveillance • Aerial crop survey AV I AT I O N M A K E S G O O D • Cargo and package delivery • Drug enforcement • Transport of equipment parts BUSINESS CENTS! • Just-in-time parts • Disaster relief • Transport Corporate aircraft are important business tools that help • News and traffic information • Wildlife counts companies grow, thrive, expand, and create jobs in our N AV I G AT I O N gathering by the media • Prisoner transport communities. Using their own aircraft, a company can AND COMMUNICATION accomplish in one 8-hour day what could otherwise take for the public • Aerial surveying • Provide visual reference several people three or four 12-hour days to accomplish • Aerial survey for real estate • Mapping from air using the airlines. The employees are home at night and come information • Highway construction • Emergency landing sites to work the next day rested and refreshed. In addition, the • Tourism access aircraft is an office where business can be conducted • Ground based navigational AVIATION RELATED during the entire flight. There are over 5,100 general aviation • Power and gas line patrol information • Air charter service airports nationwide where general aviation aircraft can land to • Communication with air traffic conduct business. There are only 500 airports nationwide that MEDICAL for people and parts have air carrier service. Seventy percent of all airline flights control and airport based • Aircraft medical transport • Flight training go through only 30 airports. personnel • Helicopter transport • Aircraft rental sightseeing • Weather information for pilots • Delivery of medical supplies • Aircraft maintenance
• Delivery of blood and organs • Aircraft fueling WHAT IS THE TOTAL E C O N O M I C I M PA C T • Transport doctors and medical • Aircraft sales personnel often to remote OF MINNESOTA’S AIRPORTS? PERSONAL USE Airports provide jobs and bring money to your communities. locations • Personal travel Minnesota’s airports contributed more than $12.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2009, while providing nearly 165,000 P U B L I C - U S E • Recreation jobs that produced more than $6.4 billion in labor income. It is • Fire fighting • Providing aircraft flights important to note that Minnesota’s small and medium airports • Public educational airport visits • Transporting family alone brought more than $433 million to the state’s economy
• Aviation youth camps and friends and provided nearly 4,000 jobs that produced approximately $184 million in labor income!* • Fly-Ins and air shows • Humanitarian missions
• Aviation outreach programs • Sports and skydiving * June 2010 Airports Economic Impact study, by the University of Minnesota • Weather information for the public • Glider operations
Military 5% Aviation Air Carrier 20% is an important part of the transportation system in Minnesota. It consists of 3 distinct parts: general aviation, scheduled air carriers, and military. General aviation makes up the largest part of aviation in any state. Your local airport socially and economically impacts your community in many ways that General Aviation 75% make it a better place to live. Some common uses of general aviation flying and airports include the following:
B U S I N E S S AGRICULTURE General aviation GOVERNMENTS is the largest part of the industry. • Transport business people • Law enforcement • Spraying and seeding
• Customer visits • Search and rescue • Field and crop inspection
• Economic development • Crime surveillance • Aerial crop survey AV I AT I O N M A K E S G O O D • Cargo and package delivery • Drug enforcement • Transport of equipment parts BUSINESS CENTS! • Just-in-time parts • Disaster relief • Transport Corporate aircraft are important business tools that help • News and traffic information • Wildlife counts companies grow, thrive, expand, and create jobs in our N AV I G AT I O N gathering by the media • Prisoner transport communities. Using their own aircraft, a company can AND COMMUNICATION accomplish in one 8-hour day what could otherwise take for the public • Aerial surveying • Provide visual reference several people three or four 12-hour days to accomplish • Aerial survey for real estate • Mapping from air using the airlines. The employees are home at night and come information • Highway construction • Emergency landing sites to work the next day rested and refreshed. In addition, the • Tourism access aircraft is an office where business can be conducted • Ground based navigational AVIATION RELATED during the entire flight. There are over 5,100 general aviation • Power and gas line patrol information • Air charter service airports nationwide where general aviation aircraft can land to • Communication with air traffic conduct business. There are only 500 airports nationwide that MEDICAL for people and parts have air carrier service. Seventy percent of all airline flights control and airport based • Aircraft medical transport • Flight training go through only 30 airports. personnel • Helicopter transport • Aircraft rental sightseeing • Weather information for pilots • Delivery of medical supplies • Aircraft maintenance
• Delivery of blood and organs • Aircraft fueling WHAT IS THE TOTAL E C O N O M I C I M PA C T • Transport doctors and medical • Aircraft sales personnel often to remote OF MINNESOTA’S AIRPORTS? PERSONAL USE Airports provide jobs and bring money to your communities. locations • Personal travel Minnesota’s airports contributed more than $12.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2009, while providing nearly 165,000 P U B L I C - U S E • Recreation jobs that produced more than $6.4 billion in labor income. It is • Fire fighting • Providing aircraft flights important to note that Minnesota’s small and medium airports • Public educational airport visits • Transporting family alone brought more than $433 million to the state’s economy
• Aviation youth camps and friends and provided nearly 4,000 jobs that produced approximately $184 million in labor income!* • Fly-Ins and air shows • Humanitarian missions
• Aviation outreach programs • Sports and skydiving * June 2010 Airports Economic Impact study, by the University of Minnesota • Weather information for the public • Glider operations Piney-Pinecreek THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Warroad Roseau h Hallock Aviation in Minnesota as an Aeronautics office that insures the safety of the state’s aviation system. Just like the Baudette highway department works to keep the roads and highways safe, the Aeronautics office Karlstad International Falls works with the aviation community to make the aviation system safe. The Aeronautics Stephen office helps airports keep runways and taxiways paved and markings painted, lights to identify Littlefork Grygla the runways and taxiways, navigation equipment so that pilots can fly from one airport to another, Warren Big Falls Waskish weather information for flying, maintenance equipment to plow snow and mow grass around Thief River Falls runways, and promote aviation so that we continue to have an influx of qualified people to keep Orr Crookston Grand Marais-Cook Co Red Lake Falls Northome our state’s aviation system successful and thriving. Cook Tower Ely Bigfork
Fosston Fertile HOW IS THE AVIATION SYSTEM FUNDED? Bagley Bemidji Bowstring Eveleth-Virginia The Aeronautics Office is funded from aviation user fees to provide services and support to the Chisholm-Hibbing Norman Co/Ada/Twin ValleyMahnomen Co Silver Bay Minnesota aviation system. The aviation user fees are generated from: Grand Rapids/Itasca Co Walker
Remer Two Harbors Longville • aviation gasoline and jet fuel tax Hawley Hill City Moorhead Park Rapids Detroit Lakes Duluth • aircraft registration Backus Pine River Duluth Sky Harbor Cloquet-Carlton Co • airflight property tax (which is a tax paid by airlines in lieu of other taxes on their flight Pelican Rapids Perham McGregor property such as aircraft and aircraft parts). Aitkin Wadena Brainerd Moose Lake-Carlton Co Staples East Gull Lk Fergus Falls Henning
Clarissa
Elbow Lake Little Falls-Morrison Co Long Prairie Herman Alexandria Mora Wheaton Milaca Sauk Centre Rush City Commercial (8) Glenwood Morris Starbuck St. Cloud Princeton Cambridge Brooten Paved w /Seaplane B ase (5)
Ortonville Benson Paynesville Paved ( 100) Appleton Maple Lake Murdock Forest Lake Buffalo Willmar Anoka Co/Blaine Lighted T urf (15) Litchfield Crystal Lac Qui Parle Co Montevideo-Chippewa Co Lake Elmo Turf (7) Winsted St. Paul Downtown Minneapolis-St.Paul Int'l Hutchinson South St. Paul Flying Cloud Canby Granite Falls Olivia Hector Glencoe
Airlake Red Wing Redwood Falls Marshall Le Sueur
Tyler New Ulm Faribault Tracy Springfield Sleepy Eye Mankato
Owatonna Waseca Winona Pipestone Slayton St. James Dodge Center Windom Rochester
Rushford
Wells Worthington Albert Lea Preston - Fillmore Co Luverne Jackson Fairmont Austin Blue Earth Houston Co
Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics
Mail Stop 410 222 East Plato Boulevard Saint Paul, Minnesota 55107-1618
651.234.7200 ph 651.234.7261 fax www.mndot.gov