St. Paul Downtown Airport

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St. Paul Downtown Airport

Holman Field
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Aerial photo of St. Paul Downtown Airport, with downtown St. Paul to the upper right, Mississippi River and MSP to the top left
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Metropolitan Airports Commission
Serves St. Paul, Minnesota
Location St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Elevation  AMSL 705 ft / 215 m
Coordinates 44°56′04″N093°03′36″W / 44.93444°N 93.06000°W / 44.93444; -93.06000
Map
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STP
Location of airport in Minnesota / United States
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STP
STP (the United States)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
14/326,4911,978 Asphalt
13/314,0041,220Asphalt
9/273,6421,110Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2014)66,475
Based aircraft (2017)68

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.

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The airport is home to an installation of the Minnesota Army National Guard. Two properties at the airport are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1939 Holman Field Administration Building and the 1942 Riverside Hangar. [2]

History

Holman Field was named for Charles W. "Speed" Holman (1898–1931), 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 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. [3]

During World War II, Northwest Airlines employed up to 5,000 people at the site, modifying new B-24 Liberator bombers, some of which received the highly classified H2X radar, which proved to be an invaluable tool in the European theater. [4]

The terminal was used as a backdrop for scenes in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five .[ citation needed ]

During the 1970s and early 1980s, commuter airline Lake State Airways offered scheduled airline service between the St. Paul Downtown Airport and Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota. It cost $5USD for a one-way ticket between the two airports, and $10 round-trip. [5] Capitol Air flew MDW-STP with a Swearingen Metroliner for roughly a year starting in December 1993.

Facilities and aircraft

St. Paul Downtown Holman Field covers an area of 540 acres (220  ha ) which contains three asphalt paved runways: 14/32 measuring 6,491 x 150 ft (1,978 x 46 m), 13/31 measuring 4,004 x 150 ft (1,220 x 46 m) and 9/27 measuring 3,642 x 100 ft (1,110 x 30 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2014, the airport had 66,475 aircraft operations, an average of 182 per day: 74% general aviation, 15% military and 11% air taxi. In January 2017, there were 68 aircraft based at this airport: 20 single-engine, 12 multi-engine, 18 jet, 7 helicopter and 11 military. [1]

Annual aircraft operations

Based on annual reports and data released by the Metropolitan Airports Commission, aircraft operations declined 65.3% in the decade 2011-2020.

YearAircraft operationsPercent Change
201187,229 [6] N/A
201279,238 [7] Decrease2.svg9.16%
201369,277 [8] Decrease2.svg12.57%
201464,539 [9] Decrease2.svg6.83%
201556,676 [10] Decrease2.svg12.18%
201654,548 [11] Decrease2.svg3.75%
201740,489 [11] Decrease2.svg25.77%
201840,116 [12] Decrease2.svg0.92%
201940,394 [13] Increase2.svg0.69%
202030,188 [13] [14] Decrease2.svg25.26%
202139,196 [15] Increase2.svg29.83%
202241,592 [16] Increase2.svg6.11%

Charter Airlines

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Flood wall considerations

Recently local debate has ensued over plans to build a flood wall around the airport. In 1993, 1997, and 2001, the airport was flooded due to its proximity to the Mississippi River. Supporters do not want to deal with the future inconvenience of having to deal with the flood again, while critics say that the proposed wall would ruin views and make the airport "ugly". [17] A dike to protect the airport from the nearby river was considered since the National Guard stated that they may leave if the dike is not constructed in a timely manner.[ citation needed ]

In 2009, a removable flood wall was installed that is only erected when flooding is imminent, leaving the views of the river intact for the rest of the year. Steel plates are embedded in the concrete on the river side of the runways. The flood wall is composed of steel posts that anchor to the embedded plates and aluminum planks that are stacked between the posts to form a flood barrier. These are then removed and stored when the flood event has passed.

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References

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Form 5010 for STP PDF , effective Jan 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Listings in Minnesota". Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office. May 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "Ask An Historian". Ramsey County Historical Society. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2007. He tragically died at an air show in Omaha in 1931
  4. ↑ Kenney, Dave (2004). Minnesota Goes to War - The Home front During World War II. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN   978-0-87351-506-1 . Retrieved 30 January 2008.
  5. ↑ "Lake State Airways" . Retrieved 14 June 2024– via TimeTableImages.com.
  6. ↑ "2011 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. March 2012. p. 59. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "2012 Annual Report to the Legislature" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. March 2013. p. 59. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "2013 Annual Report to the Legislature" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. March 2014. p. 57. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "2014 Annual Report to the Legislature" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. March 2015. p. 37. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "2015 Annual Report to the Legislature" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. March 2016. p. 35. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  11. 1 2 "2017 Annual Report to the Legislature" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. p. xii. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  12. ↑ "Year in Review 2018" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. p. xi. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  13. 1 2 "2020 Annual Report" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. p. 17. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  14. ↑ "MAC Reliever Airports bucked the trend of declining air traffic in 2020". Metropolitan Airports Commission. 3 February 2021. Archived from the original on 3 February 2021.
  15. ↑ "2021 Annual Report" (PDF). Metropolitan Airports Commission. p. 11. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  16. ↑ "Traffic at St. Paul's Holman Field airport increased nearly 5 percent in 2022". Twincities.com. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  17. ↑ Helms, Marisa (5 April 2006). "Airport flood project stirs the waters in St. Paul". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
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