T H E M I N N E S O TA D E PA R T M E N T O F T R A N S P O R TAT I O N

has an Aeronautics office that insures the safety of the state’s aviation system. Just like the highway department works to keep the roads and highways safe, the Aeronautics office works with the aviation community to make the aviation system safe. The Aeronautics office helps airports keep runways and taxiways paved and markings painted, lights to identify the runways and taxiways, navigation equipment so that pilots can fly from one airport to another, weather information for flying, maintenance equipment to plow snow and mow grass around runways, and promote aviation so that we continue to have an influx of qualified people to keep our state’s aviation system successful and thriving.

H O W I S T H E AV I AT I O N S Y S T E M F U N D E D ? The Aeronautics Office is funded from aviation user fees to provide services and support to the Minnesota aviation system. The aviation user fees are generated from:

• aviation gasoline and jet fuel tax• aircraft registration• airflight property tax (which is a tax paid by airlines in lieu of other taxes on their flight

property such as aircraft and aircraft parts).

Mail Stop 410222 East Plato BoulevardSaint Paul, Minnesota 55107-1618

651.234.7200 ph 651.234.7261 faxwww.mndot.gov

Mn/DOTOffice of Aeronaut ics

Orr

Ely

Mora

Cook

Tracy

Tower

Canby

Winona

Windom

Waseca

Warren

Walker

Wadena

Roseau

Perham

Olivia

Morris

Herman

Hector

Hawley

Benson

Bagley

Austin

Aitkin

Willmar

Wheaton

Warroad

Stephen

Staples

Slayton

New Ulm

Airlake

Crystal

Mankato

Luverne Jackson

Hallock

Glencoe

FosstonFertile

Buffalo

Brooten

Bigfork

Rushford

Red Wing

Owatonna

Moorhead

McGregor

MarshallLe Sueur

Glenwood

Fairmont

Baudette

Appleton

Lake Elmo

St. James

St. Cloud

Rush City

Princeton

Pipestone

Longville

Faribault

Crookston

Cambridge

Silver Bay

Pine River

Ortonville

Maple Lake

Litchfield

Hutchinson

Elbow Lake

Houston CoBlue Earth

Alexandria

Albert LeaWorthington

Two Harbors

Springfield

Sauk Centre

Paynesville

Park Rapids

Mahnomen Co

Flying Cloud

Long Prairie

Fergus Falls

Dodge Center

Redwood Falls

Granite Falls

Detroit Lakes

South St. Paul

Red Lake Falls

Piney-Pinecreek

Anoka Co/Blaine

Lac Qui Parle Co

Eveleth-Virginia

St. Paul Downtown

Duluth Sky HarborCloquet-Carlton Co

Grand Marais-Cook Co

Preston - Fillmore Co

Moose Lake-Carlton Co

Montevideo-Chippewa Co

Grand Rapids/Itasca Co

Little Falls-Morrison Co

Norman Co/Ada/Twin Valley

l i

w l

Commerc a (8)

Paved /Seap ane Base (5)

Paved (100)

Lighted Turf (15)

Turf (7)

Wells

Tyler

Remer

Milaca

Grygla

Backus

Winsted

Waskish

Murdock

Henning

Starbuck

Northome

Karlstad

Clarissa

Hill City

Bowstring

Big Falls

Sleepy Eye

Littlefork

Forest Lake

East Gull Lk

Pelican Rapids

Duluth

Bemidji

Brainerd

Rochester

Chisholm-Hibbing

Thief River Falls

International Falls

Minneapolis-St.Paul Int'l

Aviation in Minnesota

AV I AT I O N M A K E S G O O D B U S I N E S S C E N T S !Corporate aircraft are important business tools that help companies grow, thrive, expand, and create jobs in our communities. Using their own aircraft, a company can accomplish in one 8-hour day what could otherwise take several people three or four 12-hour days to accomplish using the airlines. The employees are home at night and come to work the next day rested and refreshed. In addition, the aircraft is an office where business can be conducted during the entire flight. There are over 5,100 general aviation airports nationwide where general aviation aircraft can land to conduct business. There are only 500 airports nationwide that have air carrier service. Seventy percent of all airline flights go through only 30 airports.

W H AT I S T H E TO TA L E C O N O M I C I M PA C T O F M I N N E S O TA’ S A I R P O R T S ?Airports provide jobs and bring money to your communities. Minnesota’s airports contributed more than $12.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2009, while providing nearly 165,000 jobs that produced more than $6.4 billion in labor income. It is important to note that Minnesota’s small and medium airports alone brought more than $433 million to the state’s economy and provided nearly 4,000 jobs that produced approximately $184 million in labor income!*

* June 2010 Airports Economic Impact study, by the University of Minnesota

Aviation is an important part of the transportation system in Minnesota. It consists of 3 distinct parts: general aviation, scheduled air carriers, and military. General aviation makes up the largest part of aviation in any state. Your local airport socially and economically impacts your community in many ways that make it a better place to live. Some common uses of general aviation flying and airports include the following:

B U S I N E S S

• Transport business people

• Customer visits

• Economic development

• Cargo and package delivery

• Just-in-time parts

• News and traffic information

gathering by the media

for the public

• Aerial survey for real estate

information

• Tourism access

• Power and gas line patrol

G O V E R N M E N T S

• Law enforcement

• Search and rescue

• Crime surveillance

• Drug enforcement

• Disaster relief

• Wildlife counts

• Prisoner transport

• Aerial surveying

• Mapping

• Highway construction

P E R S O N A L U S E

• Personal travel

• Recreation

• Providing aircraft flights

• Transporting family

and friends

• Humanitarian missions

• Sports and skydiving

• Glider operations

M E D I C A L

• Aircraft medical transport

• Helicopter transport

• Delivery of medical supplies

• Delivery of blood and organs

• Transport doctors and medical

personnel often to remote

locations

AV I AT I O N R E L AT E D

• Air charter service

for people and parts

• Flight training

• Aircraft rental sightseeing

• Aircraft maintenance

• Aircraft fueling

• Aircraft sales

A G R I C U LT U R E

• Spraying and seeding

• Field and crop inspection

• Aerial crop survey

• Transport of equipment parts

• Transport

P U B L I C - U S E

• Fire fighting

• Public educational airport visits

• Aviation youth camps

• Fly-Ins and air shows

• Aviation outreach programs

• Weather information for the public

N AV I G AT I O N A N D C O M M U N I C AT I O N

• Provide visual reference

from air

• Emergency landing sites

• Ground based navigational

information

• Communication with air traffic

control and airport based

personnel

• Weather information for pilots

Military 5%Air Carrier 20%

General Aviation 75%

General aviation is the largest part of the industry.

AV I AT I O N M A K E S G O O D B U S I N E S S C E N T S !Corporate aircraft are important business tools that help companies grow, thrive, expand, and create jobs in our communities. Using their own aircraft, a company can accomplish in one 8-hour day what could otherwise take several people three or four 12-hour days to accomplish using the airlines. The employees are home at night and come to work the next day rested and refreshed. In addition, the aircraft is an office where business can be conducted during the entire flight. There are over 5,100 general aviation airports nationwide where general aviation aircraft can land to conduct business. There are only 500 airports nationwide that have air carrier service. Seventy percent of all airline flights go through only 30 airports.

W H AT I S T H E TO TA L E C O N O M I C I M PA C T O F M I N N E S O TA’ S A I R P O R T S ?Airports provide jobs and bring money to your communities. Minnesota’s airports contributed more than $12.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2009, while providing nearly 165,000 jobs that produced more than $6.4 billion in labor income. It is important to note that Minnesota’s small and medium airports alone brought more than $433 million to the state’s economy and provided nearly 4,000 jobs that produced approximately $184 million in labor income!*

* June 2010 Airports Economic Impact study, by the University of Minnesota

Aviation is an important part of the transportation system in Minnesota. It consists of 3 distinct parts: general aviation, scheduled air carriers, and military. General aviation makes up the largest part of aviation in any state. Your local airport socially and economically impacts your community in many ways that make it a better place to live. Some common uses of general aviation flying and airports include the following:

B U S I N E S S

• Transport business people

• Customer visits

• Economic development

• Cargo and package delivery

• Just-in-time parts

• News and traffic information

gathering by the media

for the public

• Aerial survey for real estate

information

• Tourism access

• Power and gas line patrol

G O V E R N M E N T S

• Law enforcement

• Search and rescue

• Crime surveillance

• Drug enforcement

• Disaster relief

• Wildlife counts

• Prisoner transport

• Aerial surveying

• Mapping

• Highway construction

P E R S O N A L U S E

• Personal travel

• Recreation

• Providing aircraft flights

• Transporting family

and friends

• Humanitarian missions

• Sports and skydiving

• Glider operations

M E D I C A L

• Aircraft medical transport

• Helicopter transport

• Delivery of medical supplies

• Delivery of blood and organs

• Transport doctors and medical

personnel often to remote

locations

AV I AT I O N R E L AT E D

• Air charter service

for people and parts

• Flight training

• Aircraft rental sightseeing

• Aircraft maintenance

• Aircraft fueling

• Aircraft sales

A G R I C U LT U R E

• Spraying and seeding

• Field and crop inspection

• Aerial crop survey

• Transport of equipment parts

• Transport

P U B L I C - U S E

• Fire fighting

• Public educational airport visits

• Aviation youth camps

• Fly-Ins and air shows

• Aviation outreach programs

• Weather information for the public

N AV I G AT I O N A N D C O M M U N I C AT I O N

• Provide visual reference

from air

• Emergency landing sites

• Ground based navigational

information

• Communication with air traffic

control and airport based

personnel

• Weather information for pilots

Military 5%Air Carrier 20%

General Aviation 75%

General aviation is the largest part of the industry.

T H E M I N N E S O TA D E PA R T M E N T O F T R A N S P O R TAT I O N

has an Aeronautics office that insures the safety of the state’s aviation system. Just like the highway department works to keep the roads and highways safe, the Aeronautics office works with the aviation community to make the aviation system safe. The Aeronautics office helps airports keep runways and taxiways paved and markings painted, lights to identify the runways and taxiways, navigation equipment so that pilots can fly from one airport to another, weather information for flying, maintenance equipment to plow snow and mow grass around runways, and promote aviation so that we continue to have an influx of qualified people to keep our state’s aviation system successful and thriving.

H O W I S T H E AV I AT I O N S Y S T E M F U N D E D ? The Aeronautics Office is funded from aviation user fees to provide services and support to the Minnesota aviation system. The aviation user fees are generated from:

• aviation gasoline and jet fuel tax• aircraft registration• airflight property tax (which is a tax paid by airlines in lieu of other taxes on their flight

property such as aircraft and aircraft parts).

Mail Stop 410222 East Plato BoulevardSaint Paul, Minnesota 55107-1618

651.234.7200 ph 651.234.7261 faxwww.mndot.gov

Mn/DOTOffice of Aeronaut ics

Orr

Ely

Mora

Cook

Tracy

Tower

Canby

Winona

Windom

Waseca

Warren

Walker

Wadena

Roseau

Perham

Olivia

Morris

Herman

Hector

Hawley

Benson

Bagley

Austin

Aitkin

Willmar

Wheaton

Warroad

Stephen

Staples

Slayton

New Ulm

Airlake

Crystal

Mankato

Luverne Jackson

Hallock

Glencoe

FosstonFertile

Buffalo

Brooten

Bigfork

Rushford

Red Wing

Owatonna

Moorhead

McGregor

MarshallLe Sueur

Glenwood

Fairmont

Baudette

Appleton

Lake Elmo

St. James

St. Cloud

Rush City

Princeton

Pipestone

Longville

Faribault

Crookston

Cambridge

Silver Bay

Pine River

Ortonville

Maple Lake

Litchfield

Hutchinson

Elbow Lake

Houston CoBlue Earth

Alexandria

Albert LeaWorthington

Two Harbors

Springfield

Sauk Centre

Paynesville

Park Rapids

Mahnomen Co

Flying Cloud

Long Prairie

Fergus Falls

Dodge Center

Redwood Falls

Granite Falls

Detroit Lakes

South St. Paul

Red Lake Falls

Piney-Pinecreek

Anoka Co/Blaine

Lac Qui Parle Co

Eveleth-Virginia

St. Paul Downtown

Duluth Sky HarborCloquet-Carlton Co

Grand Marais-Cook Co

Preston - Fillmore Co

Moose Lake-Carlton Co

Montevideo-Chippewa Co

Grand Rapids/Itasca Co

Little Falls-Morrison Co

Norman Co/Ada/Twin Valley

l i

w l

Commerc a (8)

Paved /Seap ane Base (5)

Paved (100)

Lighted Turf (15)

Turf (7)

Wells

Tyler

Remer

Milaca

Grygla

Backus

Winsted

Waskish

Murdock

Henning

Starbuck

Northome

Karlstad

Clarissa

Hill City

Bowstring

Big Falls

Sleepy Eye

Littlefork

Forest Lake

East Gull Lk

Pelican Rapids

Duluth

Bemidji

Brainerd

Rochester

Chisholm-Hibbing

Thief River Falls

International Falls

Minneapolis-St.Paul Int'l

Aviation in Minnesota