Buffalo Niagara International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Erie County | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 4200 Genesee Street Town of Cheektowaga |
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| Elevation AMSL | 728 ft / 222 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°56′26″N 078°43′56″W / 42.94056°N 78.73222°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.buffaloairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Sources: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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| Passengers | 4,726,000 |
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Buffalo Niagara International Airport (IATA: BUF, ICAO: KBUF, FAA LID: BUF) is in Cheektowaga,New York, United States, named after the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The airport serves Buffalo, New York and Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the busiest airport in Upstate New York. It is about 11 mi (18 km) east of Downtown Buffalo and 110 mi (180 km) southeast of Toronto.
The Buffalo Municipal Airport (as it was then known) opened in 1926 on former farmland, making it one of the country's oldest public airports. Passenger and airmail service began in 1927, with service to Cleveland. A WPA-built Art Deco terminal building featuring a v-shaped terminal with a large cylindrical tower began construction in 1938, and was completed in 1939. A new apron was added a few months later. Roadway and parkway improvements were made in the 1940s and 50s. The terminal's first expansion, to 11 gates, which tripled the terminal's square footage and added a restaurant, was constructed in 1955 to keep up with increasing traffic and larger planes. In 1959, after being acquired by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), the name was changed to the Greater Buffalo International Airport. A 1961 renovation/expansion remodeled the main terminal building and built a new control tower and another concourse for American Airlines. A second terminal (the "West Terminal") was built in 1971 while it was hoped that an all-new airport would be built in the near future. The West Terminal was built to last ten years and had nine gates.
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