Riverton Regional Airport (IATA: RIW, ICAO: KRIW, FAA LID: RIW) is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Riverton, a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline. Service was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until October 2006, when Great Lakes Airlines began providing subsidy-free service.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 17,035 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 14,186 enplanements in 2009, and 14,361 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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