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Range Regional Airport (IATA: HIB, ICAO: KHIB, FAA LID: HIB) is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southeast of the central business district of Hibbing, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.[1] It was formerly known as Chisholm-Hibbing Airport or Chisholm-Hibbing Municipal Airport. The airport is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial and one charter airline. Scheduled passenger service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Range Regional Airport
IATA: HIB ICAO: KHIB FAA LID: HIB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Chisholm-Hibbing Airport
Serves	Hibbing, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL	1,354 ft / 413 m
Coordinates	47°23′12″N 092°50′20″W
Website	RangeRegionalAirport.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram
HIB Show map of Minnesota HIB Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 13/31 6,758 2,060 Asphalt 4/22 3,075 937 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2019) 28,850 Based aircraft (2020) 41
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 8,896 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[2] 8,926 enplanements in 2009, and 11,227 in 2010.[3] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport based on 2008 enplanements (between 2,500 and 10,000),[4] but would be considered primary commercial service based on enplanements in 2010.

Facilities and aircraft

Range Regional Airport covers an area of 1,600 acres (647 ha) at an elevation of 1,354 feet (413 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 13/31 is 6,758 by 150 feet (2,060 x 46 m) and 4/22 is 3,075 by 75 feet (937 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2014, the airport had 30,365 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per day: 82% general aviation, 9% air taxi, 9% scheduled commercial and <1% military. In January 2017, there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 40 single-engine, 2 multi-engine and 1 helicopter.[1]

Airline and destination

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Delta Connection	Minneapolis/St. Paul[5]

Destination map
Hibbing/Chisholm Minneapolis/St. Paul Destination from Range Regional Airport

Top destinations

Busiest routes from HIB
(March 2021 - February 2022)[6]

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Minneapolis/St. Paul	13,000	Delta Connection

Accidents and incidents

2 January 1993: An Express Airlines Saab 340A crashed hard onto the runway at Chisholm-Hibbing Municipal Airport due to wing ice accretion. There were no fatalities, but the aircraft was destroyed.

1 December 1993: Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 crashed while on approach to Chisholm-Hibbing Airport. All 18 passengers and crew on board were killed.[7]

References

External links

• Range Regional Airport, official website
• Range Regional Airport at City of Hibbing website
• "Range Regional Airport (HIB)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-27. at Minnesota DOT Airport Directory
• Aerial image as of May 1992 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for HIB, effective September 8, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for HIB
  • AirNav airport information for KHIB
  • ASN accident history for HIB
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

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