Western Nebraska Regional Airport (IATA: BFF, ICAO: KBFF, FAA LID: BFF), also known as William B. Heilig Field, is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Scottsbluff, a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States. The airport is owned by the Airport Authority of Scotts Bluff County. It is served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
The airport is named after William B. Heilig. Known as "Scottsbluff's Mr. Aviation," he was a World War II United States Army Air Force primary flight instructor, a civilian flight instructor, and manager of the city’s airport.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 10,608 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 9,221 enplanements in 2009, and 9,864 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport based in enplanements in 2008 (over 10,000) but it is non-primary commercial service based in annual enplanements in 2009 and 2010.
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