Alpena County Regional Airport

For the military use of this facility prior to 1957, see Alpena Air Force Station.

Alpena County Regional Airport
IATA: APN – ICAO: KAPN – FAA LID: APN
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	County of Alpena
Serves	Alpena, Michigan
Location	Maple Ridge Township/ Wilson Township
Elevation AMSL	690 ft / 210 m
Coordinates
Website	AlpenaAirport.com
Map
APN Location of airport in Michigan
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1/19 9,001 2,744 Concrete 7/25 5,028 1,533 Concrete
Statistics (2012)
Total passengers 25,350  11% Total enplanements 12,650  9% Aircraft operations 5,902 Based aircraft 22
Sources: Federal Aviation Administration, Michigan DOT

Alpena County Regional Airport (IATA: APN, ICAO: KAPN, FAA LID: APN) is a county-owned, public-use, joint civil-military airport in Alpena County, Michigan, United States. The airport is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) west of the central business district of Alpena, off of M-32 . It straddles the boundary between Maple Ridge Township on the north and Wilson Township on the south. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline, Delta Air Lines.

It is said to be the "Proud home of Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center," the host unit of the Michigan Air National Guard's Alpena Air National Guard Base.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 7,519 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 7,638 enplanements in 2009, and 8,737 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 (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).

Facilities and aircraft

Alpena County Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has two runways with concrete surfaces: 1/19 is 9,001 by 150 feet (2,744 × 46 m) and 7/25 is 5,028 by 100 feet (1,533 × 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2012, the airport had 5,902 aircraft operations (down from 9,790 in 2010), an average of 16 per day: 44% military, 34% general aviation, and 23% scheduled commercial. At that time there were 22 aircraft based at this airport: 64% single-engine, 27% multi-engine, 5% helicopter, and 5% military.

Airline and destinations

The following airline offers scheduled passenger service:

Airlines	Destinations
Delta Connection	Detroit

Busiest domestic routes out of APN
(Aug 2014 - Jul 2015)

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Detroit, MI	10,000	Delta
2	Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN	1,000	Delta

Cargo operations

Airlines	Destinations
FedEx Feeder operated by CSA Air	Flint

Other history

Several scenes of the film Die Hard 2 were shot there. The location was chosen in part because there was a need for snow, and the producers expected Alpena to produce. However, due to a lack of snowfall, artificial snow had to be used. Consequently, other filming was done at Kincheloe Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

See also

• Alpena Air Force Station
• Alpena Air National Guard Base

Other sources

• Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-2009-0160) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
  • Ninety-day notice (July 14, 2009): from Mesaba Aviation, Inc. of its intent to discontinue unsubsidized scheduled air service at the following communities, effective October 12, 2009: Paducah, KY; Alpena, MI; Muskegon, MI; Hancock, MI; Sault Ste. Marie, MI; International Falls, MN; Tupelo, MS and Eau Claire, WI.
• Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-2009-0300) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
  • Memorandum (November 19, 2009): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities (Alpena, MI; Eau Claire, WI; Hancock/Houghton, MI; International Falls, MN; Muskegon, MI; Paducah, KY; Sault Ste. Marie, MI; Tupelo, MS).
  • Order 2010-5-18 (May 13, 2010): setting final past-period subsidy rates for Mesaba Airlines, Inc., d/b/a Delta Connection, for its forced service at Alpena and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, International Falls, Minnesota, and Tupelo, Mississippi. Also selecting Mesaba to provide essential air service (EAS) at three of these four communities on a prospective basis. At the fourth community, Tupelo, we are tentatively selecting Mesaba to provide service based on a pro-rata application of the rate Mesaba agreed to which the staff applied to a reduced service level.
  • Ninety Day Notice (July 15, 2011): from MESABA AVIATION, INC. and PINNACLE AIRLINES, INC. of termination of service at Alpena, MI.
  • Order 2011-9-5 (September 13, 2011): prohibiting suspension of service and requesting proposals
  • Order 2012-6-3 (June 6, 2012): extending the Essential Air Service obligation of the two wholly owned subsidiaries of Pinnacle Airlines Corporation—Mesaba Aviation, Inc. and Pinnacle Airlines, d/b/a Delta Connection at the eight communities listed below (Muscle Shoals, AL; Alpena, MI; Iron Mountain/Kingsford, MI; Brainerd, MN; International Falls, MN; Greenville, MS; Laurel/Hattiesburg, MS; Tupelo, MS) for 30 days, through, July 9, 2012.

External links

• Alpena County Regional Airport, official site
• Aerial image as of April 1998 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for APN, effective April 18, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for APN
  • AirNav airport information for KAPN
  • ASN accident history for APN
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures