Northeast Philadelphia Airport
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Northeast Philadelphia Airport is an airport located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania off United States Highway 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard) east of Bustleton. Its IATA Airport Code is PNE.
Covering 1,240 acres (5 km²), with two runways 5,000 and 7,000 feet (1524 and 2134 m) long, it is the third busiest airport in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia International and Pittsburgh International.
Northeast Philadelphia Airport handles general and corporate aviation only, both domestic and international.
History
The U.S. Army began construction of an air base in Northeast Philadelphia in 1942, but the project was halted and the property turned over to the city two years later. Philadelphia Northeast Airport opened to commercial aviation in June 1945. Three years later, its name was changed to North Philadelphia Airport, and in 1980 it was changed to Northeast Philadelphia Airport.
There has been no scheduled commercial service at Northeast Philadelphia Airport since the mid-1990s, when TWA ended its TWE commuter air service.