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Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport

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Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport

IATA: AMA - ICAO: KAMA - FAA: AMA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of Amarillo
Serves		Amarillo, Texas
Elevation AMSL		3,607 ft (1,099.4 m)
Coordinates		35°13′10″N, 101°42′21″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4/22	13,502	4,115	Concrete
13/31	7,901	2,408	Concrete

Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (IATA: AMA, ICAO: KAMA, FAA LID: AMA) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) east of the central business district (CBD) of Amarillo, a city in Potter and Randall Counties, Texas, USA. The airport covers 3,547 acres and has two runways. It was renamed in 2003 after fallen NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Richard Douglas Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that year.

1 History
2 Airlines and destinations
3 References
- 3.1 Notes
4 External links

History

Harold English opened this airport as English Field in 1929. Also in 1929, Transcontinental & Western Air (the forerunner to TWA) inaugurated the first commercial airline service through Amarillo. The original name is memorialized in the English Fieldhouse, a local restaurant located adjacent to the general aviation terminal. Regularly scheduled services to Lubbock and Dallas were provided by Braniff International, Continental Airlines and Trans-Texas Airways (which was later rebranded as Texas International). Additionally, Trans World Airlines provided regularly scheduled service to such cities as Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles from this facility. Lockheed Jet-Prop Electra service was provided to Denver and Oklahoma City on Braniff International. In 1952, the name changed to Amarillo Air Terminal. After the adjacent Amarillo Air Force Base was closed in 1968, a portion of it was converted to civilian use and became part of the airport. The primary instrument runway, while originally constructed as part of the former USAF Strategic Air Command base, at 13,502 feet (4,115 meters) remains among the longest commercial runways in the United States, and it is still used by military pilots today. In 1976, the airport changed its name to Amarillo International Airport upon the opening of a U.S. Customs facility. Southwest Airlines initiated service to Amarillo in 1978^[1] with non-stop service to Dallas-Love Field. Southwest would eventually add non-stop service to Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Denver. The original English Field terminal building was converted in 1997 to a museum maintained by the Texas Aviation Historical Society.^[2] In 2003, the airport terminal building was rededicated to NASA astronaut Rick Husband, the commander of mission STS-107 of the Space Shuttle Columbia and an Amarillo native. Husband and his crew were all killed when the Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry on February 1, 2003. On July 1, 2007, the Space Shuttle Atlantis made a stop at the airport while being piggybacked from Edwards Air Force Base to Florida -- one of the few visits by the shuttle to a commercial airport. After a brief stay it was flown on to Offutt Air Force Base.