Metropolitan Airports Commission

Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC)
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Agency overview
FormedJuly 6, 1943 (1943-07-06)
Preceding agency
  • Minneapolis Park Board
TypeAirport authority
Headquarters
  • 6040 28th Avenue South
    Minneapolis, MN 55450
Employees700+
Websitemetroairports.org

The Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) is a state-level airport authority that operates the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and six reliever airports in the Twin Cities region, which primarily provide service to private individuals and businesses, but also have regional transportation service.

Background

The MAC is a governmental agency of the State of Minnesota. Twelve of its commissioners are appointed by the governor. The mayors of the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul or their designees are also members of the commission. Four of the commissioners must be residents of outstate Minnesota (outside the Twin Cities metropolitan area).[1]

Records

Surveys, studies, planning documents, brochures, proposals, and reports documenting aspects of the commission's activities are available for research use.[2] They include information regarding initial planning, disaster preparedness, studies and proposals for a second major airport site, accessibility to airport facilities, airport noise, the downtown St. Paul airport, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, deregulation, finance and bonding, personnel, parking and traffic potential, public relations, dual track airport planning, and relations with Northwest Airlines, particularly in relation to the public financing for construction of its Hibbing/Duluth repair facilities.

MAC-operated airports
AirportIATAICAOFAALocation
Airlake Airport—KLVNLVNLakeville
Anoka County-Blaine Airport—KANEANEBlaine
Crystal AirportMICKMICMICCrystal
Flying Cloud AirportFCMKFCMFCMEden Prairie
Lake Elmo Airport——21DLake Elmo, Minnesota
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International AirportMSPKMSPMSPFort Snelling
St. Paul Downtown AirportSTPKSTPSTPSaint Paul

References

  1. ↑ "Sec. 473.604 MN Statutes". www.revisor.mn.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  2. ↑ Metropolitan Airport Commission: An Inventory of Its Published Records