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Airport information for Mercer County Airport Country: United States Location: Philadelphia Coordinates: 40.17.00N / 074.49.00W IATA Code: TTN Timezone: GMT -5 Direct flights form Mercer County Airport Direct flights to Mercer County Airport Find connecting flights to Mercer County Airport Find connecting flights from Mercer County Airport

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For the airport in Mercer County, West Virginia, see Mercer County Airport (West Virginia).

Trenton-Mercer Airport (IATA: TTN, ICAO: KTTN, FAA LID: TTN), once known as Mercer County Airport, is a public airport turn up in Ewing, New Jersey, 4 land mile (six kilometre) northwest of the central downtown (CBD) of Trenton, a town in Mercer County, New Jersey. The airport deals general and corporate air power.

Trenton-Mercer is the 6th busiest airport in New Jersey aggregative (after Newark, Essex County, Teterboro, Morristown, and Atlantic City) and was once the 3rd busiest commercially (after Newark and Atlantic City). Passenger volume, which lingered around 90,000 in the late 1990s, has fallen in the 2000s, and approximately 20,000 riders moved through the airport in 2005 consorting to informations let go by Mercer County, which owns and functions the installation. As of March 2008, all commercial rider service to and from the airport has stopped.

History

The 1st plane district at what is currently Trenton-Mercer Airport in 1907, in what was then Alfred Reeder's farm field, merely off of Bear Tavern Road in Ewing. Twenty-two yr afterwards in 1929, "Skillman Airport" was officially opened to the public.

During World War II, the nearby General Motors constitute stopped bringing forth civilian vehicles and set about bringing forth TBF Avenger bombers for the United States Navy. Skillman Airport was greatly spread out to adapt test-flights of this aircraft, and after the airport was returned to county command coming after the finish of the conflict, it was renamed "Mercer County Airport".

Airport Air Traffic Control functioning ground in the control tower were six AM to Midnight during the 1980s and early 1990s. Since January 1994, tower functioning have been somewhat shortened to six AM to ten PM.

In 1995, the airport's name was officially modified from "Mercer County Airport" to "Trenton-Mercer Airport" in an attempt to more closely place it with the town of Trenton (the capital of New Jersey and county courthouse of Mercer County).

On March 11, 1998, an NWS/FAA Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) got operational at the airport, replacing the human condition percipient which had antecedently described airport weather condition.

For many yr, the county has had architectural plans to spread out the airport and draw more commercial air hose. However, these programmes have been greatly hindered due to vociferous resistance from inhabitants of local suburban housing parcel of land in Ewing, Lawrence, Hopewell, Lower Makefield, Pennington and Yardley (some of which are in Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River). Most of these developments were made after the airport was 1st constituted. However, these inhabitants see aircraft noise as taking away from their characteristic of life, and experience endangered by the possibility of accidents ensuing from increased air traffic.

Facilities

Trenton Mercer Airport covers 1,345 acres (5.44 kilometre^two) and has 2 landing track and 3 helipads:

• Runway 6/24: 6,006 x 150 foot (1,831 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
• Runway 16/34: 4,800 x 150 foot (1,463 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
• Helipad H1: 64 x 64 foot (20 x 20 m), Surface: Asphalt
• Helipad H2: 64 x 64 foot (20 x 20 m), Surface: Asphalt
• Helipad H3: 64 x 64 foot (20 x 20 m), Surface: Asphalt

Former Commercial Service

• In the Mid to Late 1990s Eastwind Airlines functioned a hub out of Trenton to Florida and Virginia as good as airports in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. The air hose winged from Philadelphia as an alternitave for a short clip to a fault. This was 1 of the only clips Trenton-Mercer saw scheduled jet plane service from its short landing track with 737-200 and 737-700 aircraft.
• From 1998 until 2003 Shuttle America functioned a scheduled business commuter train service to airports in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina. The air hose winged 50 sit Dash 8-311 turbo-propeller planes and had all its aircraft stocked with in-flight service points when halt in Trenton. The air hose stopped functioning at TTN after a codeshare service with US Airways pulled clients to nearby Philadelphia from Trenton.
• In 2006 and 2007 Comair winged to both Atlanta and Boston from Trenton on behalf of Delta Connection using CRJ-200 aircraft. After a few calendar month, Big Sky Airlines took over the Boston service winging Beech 1900 equipment. The service stopped in early January 2008.
• From May 2000 until February 2008, Boston-Maine Airways functioned a voyage known as the Pan Am Clipper Connection between Trenton-Mercer Airport and Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts. The voyage was ended when Boston-Maine Airways stopped functioning on February 28, 2008.

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