DeSimone for Governor and John Chafee for U.S. A crowd of 10,000 watched as Nixon, standing on the steps of Air Force One, urged voters to support Republican candidates Herbert F. President Richard Nixon made a campaign stop at the airport on the night of Friday, November 3, 1972. The first jets were Mohawk BAC-111s in 1966. Nonstops did not reach beyond Boston and Newark until 1959 when Eastern started a DC-7B nonstop to Washington, which was the longest until United started Cleveland in 1968 and Chicago in 1970 and Eastern started Miami in 1969 and Atlanta in 1970. The April 1957 OAG shows 26 weekday departures: 11 Eastern, 10 American, four United, and one National. A September 1946 diagram shows runways 5, 10 and 16 all 4,000 ft (1,200 m) long in April 1951 runway 5 was 5,000 ft (1,500 m) and 5R was under construction. The Army Air Force took control from 1942 to 1945, using it for flight training. At the time it had three 3,000 ft (910 m) concrete runways. In 1938, the airport was renamed in honor of Green, who had just been elected to the Senate two years earlier. In 1933, the Rhode Island State Airport Terminal was built on Airport Road, then called Occupasstuxet Road.

Green Airport was dedicated on September 27, 1931, as Hillsgrove State Airport, drawing what was at that time the largest crowd to attend a public function in the country. The airport is the largest and most active airport among the six operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC). Green Airport is a regional airport serving the FAA's New England Region in the FAA System Plan. PVD covers an area of 1,111 acres (450 ha) and has two runways. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a small hub primary commercial service facility. It is the first state-owned airport in the United States. Rebuilt in 1996, the renovated main terminal was named for former Rhode Island governor Bruce Sundlun. Opened in 1931, the airport was named for former Rhode Island governor and longtime senator Theodore Francis Green. Green International Airport ( IATA: PVD, ICAO: KPVD, FAA LID: PVD) is a public international airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, 6 miles (5.2 nmi 9.7 km) south of the state's capital and largest city of Providence.

Source: Federal Aviation Administration, U.S.

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