Harrisburg International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority | ||||||||||
| Serves | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Location | Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 310 ft / 94 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°11′35″N 076°45′48″W / 40.19306°N 76.76333°WCoordinates: 40°11′35″N 076°45′48″W / 40.19306°N 76.76333°W | ||||||||||
| Website | www.FlyHIA.com | ||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 47,289 |
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| Based aircraft | 26 |
| Passengers | 1,173,938 |
Harrisburg International Airport (IATA: MDT, ICAO: KMDT, FAA LID: MDT) is a public airport in Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania, nine miles (15 km) southeast of Harrisburg. It is owned by the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority.
The airport code MDT refers to Middletown, a suburb of Harrisburg which is the airport's mailing address. Planes landing at MDT from the south are often routed near Three Mile Island a few miles from the airport. The airport, frequently referred to as HIA, is the primary commercial airport in South Central Pennsylvania and is the third-busiest airport in Pennsylvania for passenger enplanements and cargo shipments behind Philadelphia International Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport.
Harrisburg International Airport has been serving south-central Pennsylvania for over 100 years. Beginning in 1898, the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army was stationed here. This was followed by the first military airplanes landing in 1918 at what had become Olmsted Field of the fledgling U.S. Army Air Service.
The Middletown Air Depot (later Middletown Air Materiel Area) at Olmsted provided logistical and maintenance support of military aircraft until it closed in 1969. In 1968 airline flights moved from Capital City Airport to Harrisburg International Airport at the former Air Force Base. Architect William Pereira designed the new terminals, completed in 1973.
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