Stewart International Airport is located near Newburgh, New York, in the southern Hudson Valley, 55 miles (88.5 km) north of New York City. The airport's IATA airport code is SWF and the ICAO airport code is KSWF. It has a single passenger terminal.

History

From 1942 until 1970, the airport was a United States Army Air Corps base called Stewart Airfield, then Stewart Air Force Base when the United States Air Force became an independent service. For many of those years, the airfield was used for cadet flight instruction at the nearby U.S. Military Academy (West Point). Today, part of the airport is used by the 105th Air Cargo Wing of the New York Air National Guard. This area of the airport, called Stewart Air National Guard Base, is one of the bases for the Air Force's C-5 Galaxy. The Air National Guard operates their only C-5 maintenance base at Stewart.

Stewart Airfield was used for the homecoming of the Iranian Embassy hostages who had been held in captivity for 444 days after the taking of United States Embassy in Iran on November 4, 1979.

In the 1980s, commercial airline service began with American Airlines offering service with 3 daily round trips to both Chicago and Raleigh-Durham.

Stewart Airport is owned by the United Kingdom-based National Express Group, and was the first airport to be privatized in the United States.

Airlines and destinations

• American Eagle Gate 4 (Chicago O'Hare)
• Comair dba Delta Connection Gates 1-2 (Cincinnati)
• Independence Air Gate 7 (Washington Dulles)
• Piedmont Airlines dba US Airways Express Gate 8 (Philadelphia)
• Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink Gate 3 (Detroit)

External links

• Stewart International Homepage
• 105th Air Cargo Wing NY ANG