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Capital Airport
Airport Directory » United States » Springfield » Capital AirportAirport information for Capital AirportCountry: United StatesLocation: Springfield Coordinates: 39.51.00N / 089.41.00W IATA Code: SPI Timezone: GMT -6 Direct flights form Capital Airport Direct flights to Capital Airport Find connecting flights to Capital Airport Find connecting flights from Capital Airport |
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Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (IATA: SPI, ICAO: KSPI) also known just as Capital Airport, is a joint civil-military public airport turn up three land mile (five kilometre) northwest of the town of Springfield in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
Airport services
The Airport has a Subway, a novelty shop and an automated storyteller machine. TV and a lounge are also provided at the airport.
Military Facilities
The airport is also place to Capital Airport Air National Guard Station, a 91-acre (370,000 mtwo) installation on district rent from the Springfield Airport Authority. It is place to the 183d Fighter Wing (183 FW), an Illinois Air National Guard unit operationally derived by the Air Combat Command (ACC) and State Headquarters, Illinois Air National Guard. Historically a scrapper unit, the 183 FW dwells of 321 full-time and 800 parttime armed forces force (aggregative strength 1,321). The 183 FW was diected to plunk itself of its attack aircraft pursuant to a BRAC 2005 determination, and in October 2008, the last of the 170th Fighter Squadron's 15 F-16C/D Fighting Falcon aircraft go away Capital Airport AGS for redistribution to other Air National Guard scrapper wings. The 183 FW stays in location at Capital Airport AGS minus a winging missionary station while the U.S. Air Force, the Air Combat Command and the Air National Guard find out a new office and missionary post position for the wing. The Illinois Air National Guard State Headquarters, Expeditionary Combat Support (ECS) components of the 183 FW, the 217th Engineering Installation Squadron and the F110 engine Centralized Intermediate Repair Facility (CIRF) also stay in location at Capital Airport AGS.
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