Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport (IATA: DIK, ICAO: KDIK, FAA LID: DIK), formerly known as Dickinson Municipal Airport, is a public use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) south of the central business district of Dickinson, in Stark County, North Dakota, United States. It is owned by the Dickinson Airport Authority.
The airport serves western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northwest South Dakota, home to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial airline, with three flights each day from Sunday through Friday, and two flights on Saturday. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Great Lakes Airlines uses their EMB-120 and Beechcraft 1900D aircraft to operate at Dickinson.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 9,164 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 8,924 enplanements in 2009, and 10,383 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008/2009 (between 2,500 and 10,000 per year).
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