Houghton County Memorial Airport (IATA: CMX, ICAO: KCMX, FAA LID: CMX) is a county owned, public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southwest of the central business district of Calumet, a village in Houghton County, Michigan, United States. The airport is situated in the unincorporated community of Oneco in Franklin Township, near the village of Calumet on the Keweenaw Peninsula in northwest of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Limited scheduled commercial service is available, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. In addition, Royale Air Service provides seaplane service to Isle Royale National Park based on traveler demand.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 25,354 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 24,826 enplanements in 2009, and 21,186 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 (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
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