Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport
| Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Amarillo | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Amarillo Airport Department | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Amarillo, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,607 ft / 1,099.4 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°13′10″N 101°42′21″W / 35.21944°N 101.70583°WCoordinates: 35°13′10″N 101°42′21″W / 35.21944°N 101.70583°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | http://airport.amarillo.gov | ||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 98,058 |
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| Based aircraft (2016) | 44 |
Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (IATA: AMA, ICAO: KAMA, FAA LID: AMA) is a public airport six miles (10 km) east of downtown Amarillo, in Potter and Randall Counties, Texas, United States. The airport was renamed in 2003 after NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Rick Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that year.
Harold English opened English Field in 1929. That year Transcontinental & Western Air began passenger airline service to Amarillo. In 1931, Amarillo was a stop on coast-to-coast service between Los Angeles and New York City operated by Transcontinental & Western Air with Ford Trimotor aircraft. The airline's timetable stated this transcontinental flight could be accomplished in 36 hours with "overnight hotel stops" being made in each direction on a routing of Los Angeles-Kingman, AZ-Winslow, AZ-Albuquerque-Amarillo-Wichita-Kansas City-St. Louis-Indianapolis-Columbus, OH-Pittsburgh-Philadelphia-New York City (via Newark Airport). Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) eventually changed its name to Trans World Airlines which in turn continued to serve Amarillo for many years.
In later years, Braniff International, Central Airlines and successor Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) as well as Continental Airlines began serving Amarillo. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide (OAG) lists 23 weekday departures: eleven on Braniff, eight on TWA, two on Central and two on Continental. Trans-Texas Airways (TTa, which was subsequently renamed Texas International) also then began serving the airport. Trans World Airlines operated flights to Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. In 1960, TWA was operating all of its flights into Amarillo with Lockheed Constellation propliners. By 1961, Continental was serving the airport with British-manufactured Vickers Viscount turboprops flying Amarillo-Lubbock-Dallas Love Field and Amarillo-Lubbock-Midland/Odessa-San Angelo-Austin-Houston Hobby Airport service. In 1966, Braniff was operating Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop service nonstop (and also direct via Lubbock) to Dallas Love Field as well as direct to Denver via Colorado Springs. By 1967, Braniff in cooperation with Eastern Airlines were operating interchange thru plane Electra propjet service between Atlanta and Denver via Amarillo on a daily round trip routing of Atlanta-Birmingham-Memphis-Little Rock-Tulsa-Oklahoma City-Amarillo-Denver. Also in 1967, Central Airlines was serving Amarillo with Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft and Convair 600 turboprops on direct services to Borger, TX, Denver, Kansas City, Liberal, KS, Oklahoma City, Pueblo, CO, Topeka and Wichita. Following its acquisition of and merger with Central, Frontier Airlines operated Convair 580 turboprops to Denver and Memphis via intermediate stops at various destinations in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Trans-Texas Airways began serving the airport during the mid 1960s with Convair 240 prop aircraft flying Amarillo-Lubbock-Abilene-Austin-Houston Hobby Airport service.
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