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Airport information for Eppley Airfield Airport Country: United States Location: Omaha Coordinates: 41.18.00N / 095.54.00W IATA Code: OMA Timezone: GMT -6 Direct flights form Eppley Airfield Airport Direct flights to Eppley Airfield Airport Find connecting flights to Eppley Airfield Airport Find connecting flights from Eppley Airfield Airport

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Eppley Airfield (IATA: OMA, ICAO: KOMA, FAA LID: OMA) is a commercial airport turn up 3 land mile (five kilometre) nor'-east of the central downtown of Omaha, a town in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. It is the biggest airport in the province of Nebraska. In addition to the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area , Eppley Airfield assists communities throughout eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, northern Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota.

The airport is named for Eugene C. Eppley, the Omaha Eppley Hotel business leader, from whose estate $1 million was used to change over the Omaha Municipal Airport into a jet plane port in 1959/1960.

The airport busies 2,650 acres (10.7 kilometre^two) and deals approximately 397 voyages a hebdomad. The airport has 2 concourses dwelling of 20 entrances. As of November 2008, all regularly-scheduled voyages from Eppley Airfield end within the United States. The airport dealt more than 4.3 million riders in 2008, and as of February 2009, Southwest Airlines is the biggest bearer, deal about 25 percentage of riders; United Airlines is the second-largest bearer, deal about 19 percentage of riders. The airport is assisted by MAT jitney #16.

Location

Eppley Airfield depot in Omaha. The houses like a shot behind are in Carter Lake, Iowa (with Carter Lake seeable to the right). The bluffs are in Omaha.

The airport is turn up nor'-east of business district Omaha in east Omaha. Although the airport is in Nebraska and on the west side of the Missouri River, through a geographical curio it is border on the east, westward and southward by the province of Iowa: the Missouri River once characteristic an oxbow now due west of the district that got Eppley Airfield. The river disrupt the oxbow during an 1877 inundate, leave behind Carter Lake on a component part of its former course of instruction; the Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that though the district break up by the river's modified path currently lay due west of the Missouri, it rested division of Iowa. This district finally got the town of Carter Lake, Iowa.

People driving from business district Omaha moldiness go through a little subdivision of Iowa to make the airport. The main route plugging in the airport to business district is Abbott Drive; merely southward of the airport, Abbott Drive is signed as Iowa Highway 165 for 0.5 land mile (0.80 kilometre) in Carter Lake. In Iowa, Abbott Drive is back up by the Iowa Department of Transportation and has Iowa welcome signs on either side; in Nebraska, Abbott Drive in Nebraska is an Omaha town street and has no Nebraska welcome signs (which shall be supplied by the province). Travelers come up from the northward from northward Omaha and the northward shore of Carter Lake in East Omaha is able to access the airport by rest in Nebraska the entire clip.

History

On six August 1966 Braniff Airways Flight 250 go forth Kansas City Downtown Airport headed for Eppley and crashed near Falls City, Nebraska assassination all 42 on board. The voyage was waiting for weather condition to clear in Omaha before go down when violent turbulency compromised the structural unity of the aeroplane.

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