St. Louis Downtown Airport

St. Louis Downtown Airport A PREMIER OPTION S t. Louis Downtown Airport is ideally lo- cated in Cahokia, Ill. just across the Mis- sissippi River from the Gateway Arch and downtown St. Louis. The Airport is the metropolitan region’s second busiest general avi- ation airport and Illinois’ third busiest, aside from Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway Airports. St. Louis Downtown is owned and operated by the Bi-State Development, a Missouri-based “federal compact between the state of Missouri and the state of Illinois,” explains the Airport’s director, Erick Dahl. The airport was originally constructed in 1918 as just a turf runway and then expanded a bit in 1929. Since then, it’s steadily grown to become what it is today, with three runways and two ter- minals, as well as hangars situated on more than 1,000 acres. The Airport was closed from 1958 to the mid- 1960s, when Bi-State Development assumed ownership. “Elected officials in Missouri and Illinois came to Bi-State Development leadership and said we need a reliever airport.We have to AT A GLANCE ST. LOUIS DOWNTOWN AIRPORT WHAT: A public-use airport WHERE: One mile east of the central business district of Cahokia, in St. Clair County, Illinois WEBSITE: www.stlouisdowntownairport.com