aviation in minnesota
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T H E M I N N E S O TA D E PA R T M E N T O F T R A N S P O R TAT I O N
has an Aeronautics office that insures the safety of the state’s aviation system. Just like the highway department works to keep the roads and highways safe, the Aeronautics office works with the aviation community to make the aviation system safe. The Aeronautics office helps airports keep runways and taxiways paved and markings painted, lights to identify the runways and taxiways, navigation equipment so that pilots can fly from one airport to another, weather information for flying, maintenance equipment to plow snow and mow grass around runways, and promote aviation so that we continue to have an influx of qualified people to keep our state’s aviation system successful and thriving.
H O W I S T H E AV I AT I O N S Y S T E M F U N D E D ? The Aeronautics Office is funded from aviation user fees to provide services and support to the Minnesota aviation system. The aviation user fees are generated from:
• aviation gasoline and jet fuel tax• aircraft registration• airflight property tax (which is a tax paid by airlines in lieu of other taxes on their flight
property such as aircraft and aircraft parts).
Mail Stop 410222 East Plato BoulevardSaint Paul, Minnesota 55107-1618
651.234.7200 ph 651.234.7261 faxwww.mndot.gov
Mn/DOTOffice of Aeronaut ics
Orr
Ely
Mora
Cook
Tracy
Tower
Canby
Winona
Windom
Waseca
Warren
Walker
Wadena
Roseau
Perham
Olivia
Morris
Herman
Hector
Hawley
Benson
Bagley
Austin
Aitkin
Willmar
Wheaton
Warroad
Stephen
Staples
Slayton
New Ulm
Airlake
Crystal
Mankato
Luverne Jackson
Hallock
Glencoe
FosstonFertile
Buffalo
Brooten
Bigfork
Rushford
Red Wing
Owatonna
Moorhead
McGregor
MarshallLe Sueur
Glenwood
Fairmont
Baudette
Appleton
Lake Elmo
St. James
St. Cloud
Rush City
Princeton
Pipestone
Longville
Faribault
Crookston
Cambridge
Silver Bay
Pine River
Ortonville
Maple Lake
Litchfield
Hutchinson
Elbow Lake
Houston CoBlue Earth
Alexandria
Albert LeaWorthington
Two Harbors
Springfield
Sauk Centre
Paynesville
Park Rapids
Mahnomen Co
Flying Cloud
Long Prairie
Fergus Falls
Dodge Center
Redwood Falls
Granite Falls
Detroit Lakes
South St. Paul
Red Lake Falls
Piney-Pinecreek
Anoka Co/Blaine
Lac Qui Parle Co
Eveleth-Virginia
St. Paul Downtown
Duluth Sky HarborCloquet-Carlton Co
Grand Marais-Cook Co
Preston - Fillmore Co
Moose Lake-Carlton Co
Montevideo-Chippewa Co
Grand Rapids/Itasca Co
Little Falls-Morrison Co
Norman Co/Ada/Twin Valley
l i
w l
Commerc a (8)
Paved /Seap ane Base (5)
Paved (100)
Lighted Turf (15)
Turf (7)
Wells
Tyler
Remer
Milaca
Grygla
Backus
Winsted
Waskish
Murdock
Henning
Starbuck
Northome
Karlstad
Clarissa
Hill City
Bowstring
Big Falls
Sleepy Eye
Littlefork
Forest Lake
East Gull Lk
Pelican Rapids
Duluth
Bemidji
Brainerd
Rochester
Chisholm-Hibbing
Thief River Falls
International Falls
Minneapolis-St.Paul Int'l
Aviation in Minnesota
AV I AT I O N M A K E S G O O D B U S I N E S S C E N T S !Corporate aircraft are important business tools that help companies grow, thrive, expand, and create jobs in our communities. Using their own aircraft, a company can accomplish in one 8-hour day what could otherwise take several people three or four 12-hour days to accomplish using the airlines. The employees are home at night and come to work the next day rested and refreshed. In addition, the aircraft is an office where business can be conducted during the entire flight. There are over 5,100 general aviation airports nationwide where general aviation aircraft can land to conduct business. There are only 500 airports nationwide that have air carrier service. Seventy percent of all airline flights go through only 30 airports.
W H AT I S T H E TO TA L E C O N O M I C I M PA C T O F M I N N E S O TA’ S A I R P O R T S ?Airports provide jobs and bring money to your communities. Minnesota’s airports contributed more than $12.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2009, while providing nearly 165,000 jobs that produced more than $6.4 billion in labor income. It is important to note that Minnesota’s small and medium airports alone brought more than $433 million to the state’s economy and provided nearly 4,000 jobs that produced approximately $184 million in labor income!*
* June 2010 Airports Economic Impact study, by the University of Minnesota
Aviation 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 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
• Transport business people
• Customer visits
• Economic development
• Cargo and package delivery
• Just-in-time parts
• News and traffic information
gathering by the media
for the public
• Aerial survey for real estate
information
• Tourism access
• Power and gas line patrol
G O V E R N M E N T S
• Law enforcement
• Search and rescue
• Crime surveillance
• Drug enforcement
• Disaster relief
• Wildlife counts
• Prisoner transport
• Aerial surveying
• Mapping
• Highway construction
P E R S O N A L U S E
• Personal travel
• Recreation
• Providing aircraft flights
• Transporting family
and friends
• Humanitarian missions
• Sports and skydiving
• Glider operations
M E D I C A L
• Aircraft medical transport
• Helicopter transport
• Delivery of medical supplies
• Delivery of blood and organs
• Transport doctors and medical
personnel often to remote
locations
AV I AT I O N R E L AT E D
• Air charter service
for people and parts
• Flight training
• Aircraft rental sightseeing
• Aircraft maintenance
• Aircraft fueling
• Aircraft sales
A G R I C U LT U R E
• Spraying and seeding
• Field and crop inspection
• Aerial crop survey
• Transport of equipment parts
• Transport
P U B L I C - U S E
• Fire fighting
• Public educational airport visits
• Aviation youth camps
• Fly-Ins and air shows
• Aviation outreach programs
• Weather information for the public
N AV I G AT I O N A N D C O M M U N I C AT I O N
• Provide visual reference
from air
• Emergency landing sites
• Ground based navigational
information
• Communication with air traffic
control and airport based
personnel
• Weather information for pilots
Military 5%Air Carrier 20%
General Aviation 75%
General aviation is the largest part of the industry.
AV I AT I O N M A K E S G O O D B U S I N E S S C E N T S !Corporate aircraft are important business tools that help companies grow, thrive, expand, and create jobs in our communities. Using their own aircraft, a company can accomplish in one 8-hour day what could otherwise take several people three or four 12-hour days to accomplish using the airlines. The employees are home at night and come to work the next day rested and refreshed. In addition, the aircraft is an office where business can be conducted during the entire flight. There are over 5,100 general aviation airports nationwide where general aviation aircraft can land to conduct business. There are only 500 airports nationwide that have air carrier service. Seventy percent of all airline flights go through only 30 airports.
W H AT I S T H E TO TA L E C O N O M I C I M PA C T O F M I N N E S O TA’ S A I R P O R T S ?Airports provide jobs and bring money to your communities. Minnesota’s airports contributed more than $12.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2009, while providing nearly 165,000 jobs that produced more than $6.4 billion in labor income. It is important to note that Minnesota’s small and medium airports alone brought more than $433 million to the state’s economy and provided nearly 4,000 jobs that produced approximately $184 million in labor income!*
* June 2010 Airports Economic Impact study, by the University of Minnesota
Aviation 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 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
• Transport business people
• Customer visits
• Economic development
• Cargo and package delivery
• Just-in-time parts
• News and traffic information
gathering by the media
for the public
• Aerial survey for real estate
information
• Tourism access
• Power and gas line patrol
G O V E R N M E N T S
• Law enforcement
• Search and rescue
• Crime surveillance
• Drug enforcement
• Disaster relief
• Wildlife counts
• Prisoner transport
• Aerial surveying
• Mapping
• Highway construction
P E R S O N A L U S E
• Personal travel
• Recreation
• Providing aircraft flights
• Transporting family
and friends
• Humanitarian missions
• Sports and skydiving
• Glider operations
M E D I C A L
• Aircraft medical transport
• Helicopter transport
• Delivery of medical supplies
• Delivery of blood and organs
• Transport doctors and medical
personnel often to remote
locations
AV I AT I O N R E L AT E D
• Air charter service
for people and parts
• Flight training
• Aircraft rental sightseeing
• Aircraft maintenance
• Aircraft fueling
• Aircraft sales
A G R I C U LT U R E
• Spraying and seeding
• Field and crop inspection
• Aerial crop survey
• Transport of equipment parts
• Transport
P U B L I C - U S E
• Fire fighting
• Public educational airport visits
• Aviation youth camps
• Fly-Ins and air shows
• Aviation outreach programs
• Weather information for the public
N AV I G AT I O N A N D C O M M U N I C AT I O N
• Provide visual reference
from air
• Emergency landing sites
• Ground based navigational
information
• Communication with air traffic
control and airport based
personnel
• Weather information for pilots
Military 5%Air Carrier 20%
General Aviation 75%
General aviation is the largest part of the industry.
T H E M I N N E S O TA D E PA R T M E N T O F T R A N S P O R TAT I O N
has an Aeronautics office that insures the safety of the state’s aviation system. Just like the highway department works to keep the roads and highways safe, the Aeronautics office works with the aviation community to make the aviation system safe. The Aeronautics office helps airports keep runways and taxiways paved and markings painted, lights to identify the runways and taxiways, navigation equipment so that pilots can fly from one airport to another, weather information for flying, maintenance equipment to plow snow and mow grass around runways, and promote aviation so that we continue to have an influx of qualified people to keep our state’s aviation system successful and thriving.
H O W I S T H E AV I AT I O N S Y S T E M F U N D E D ? The Aeronautics Office is funded from aviation user fees to provide services and support to the Minnesota aviation system. The aviation user fees are generated from:
• aviation gasoline and jet fuel tax• aircraft registration• airflight property tax (which is a tax paid by airlines in lieu of other taxes on their flight
property such as aircraft and aircraft parts).
Mail Stop 410222 East Plato BoulevardSaint Paul, Minnesota 55107-1618
651.234.7200 ph 651.234.7261 faxwww.mndot.gov
Mn/DOTOffice of Aeronaut ics
Orr
Ely
Mora
Cook
Tracy
Tower
Canby
Winona
Windom
Waseca
Warren
Walker
Wadena
Roseau
Perham
Olivia
Morris
Herman
Hector
Hawley
Benson
Bagley
Austin
Aitkin
Willmar
Wheaton
Warroad
Stephen
Staples
Slayton
New Ulm
Airlake
Crystal
Mankato
Luverne Jackson
Hallock
Glencoe
FosstonFertile
Buffalo
Brooten
Bigfork
Rushford
Red Wing
Owatonna
Moorhead
McGregor
MarshallLe Sueur
Glenwood
Fairmont
Baudette
Appleton
Lake Elmo
St. James
St. Cloud
Rush City
Princeton
Pipestone
Longville
Faribault
Crookston
Cambridge
Silver Bay
Pine River
Ortonville
Maple Lake
Litchfield
Hutchinson
Elbow Lake
Houston CoBlue Earth
Alexandria
Albert LeaWorthington
Two Harbors
Springfield
Sauk Centre
Paynesville
Park Rapids
Mahnomen Co
Flying Cloud
Long Prairie
Fergus Falls
Dodge Center
Redwood Falls
Granite Falls
Detroit Lakes
South St. Paul
Red Lake Falls
Piney-Pinecreek
Anoka Co/Blaine
Lac Qui Parle Co
Eveleth-Virginia
St. Paul Downtown
Duluth Sky HarborCloquet-Carlton Co
Grand Marais-Cook Co
Preston - Fillmore Co
Moose Lake-Carlton Co
Montevideo-Chippewa Co
Grand Rapids/Itasca Co
Little Falls-Morrison Co
Norman Co/Ada/Twin Valley
l i
w l
Commerc a (8)
Paved /Seap ane Base (5)
Paved (100)
Lighted Turf (15)
Turf (7)
Wells
Tyler
Remer
Milaca
Grygla
Backus
Winsted
Waskish
Murdock
Henning
Starbuck
Northome
Karlstad
Clarissa
Hill City
Bowstring
Big Falls
Sleepy Eye
Littlefork
Forest Lake
East Gull Lk
Pelican Rapids
Duluth
Bemidji
Brainerd
Rochester
Chisholm-Hibbing
Thief River Falls
International Falls
Minneapolis-St.Paul Int'l
Aviation in Minnesota