Holman Field

St. Paul Downtown Airport Holman Field
Aerial photo of St. Paul Downtown Airport, with downtown St. Paul to the upper right, Mississippi River and MSP to the top left
IATA: STP ICAO: KSTP FAA LID: STP
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Metropolitan Airports Commission
Serves	St. Paul, Minnesota
Location	St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Elevation AMSL	705 ft / 215 m
Coordinates	44°56′04″N 093°03′36″W / 44.93444°N 93.06000°W / 44.93444; -93.06000Coordinates: 44°56′04″N 093°03′36″W / 44.93444°N 93.06000°W / 44.93444; -93.06000
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 6,491 1,978 Asphalt 13/31 4,004 1,220 Asphalt 9/27 3,642 1,110 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2014) 66,475 Based aircraft (2017) 68
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

St. Paul Downtown Airport (IATA: STP, ICAO: KSTP, FAA LID: STP), also known as Holman Field, is an airport just across the Mississippi River from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is one of several reliever airports in the Twin Cities operated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The airport has three runways and serves aircraft operated by corporations in the local area, a flight training school and the Minnesota Army National Guard aviation unit, as well as transient general aviation aircraft.

The airport is home to an installation of the Minnesota Army National Guard. The Holman Field Administration Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Holman Field was named for Charles W. "Speed" Holman (born in 1898), who was a stunt pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, parachutist, airmail pilot, aviation record holder and airline pilot. Born in Bloomington, he was the first pilot hired by Northwest Airways in 1926. In 1928, Holman set a world's record of 1,433 consecutive loops in an airplane in five hours over the St. Paul Airport. He died in an accident during an air show in Omaha in 1931 at the age of 32.