Facilities and Aircraft
Sawyer International Airport covers an area of 2,100 acres (850 ha). It has a single asphalt/concrete runway, 12,370 x 150 ft (3,770 x 46 m), originally re-designed in 1959 to accommodate B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers.
For 12-month period ending December 31, 2011, the airport had 21,345 aircraft operations (a decrease from 22,515 operations in 2008), an average of 58 per day: 49% general aviation (10,375), 49% air taxi (10,513), <1% scheduled commercial (2), and 2% military (455). There are 45 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine (39), 11% multi-engine (5), 0% jet, and 2% helicopter (1).
There is an industrial park, the Telkite Technology Park, adjacent to the airport, with 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land and 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) of space in a Michigan Renaissance Zone, which exempts the tenant or owner from the majority of state and local taxes.
The airport is home to the Marquette County Aviation Wall of Honor which features many influential pilots and engineers.
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