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The Eastern Iowa Airport is a commercial Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa , in the United States . The airport serves Cedar Rapids, Iowa City , and other communities in eastern Iowa . It is located along Wright Brothers Boulevard on the southern edge of Cedar Rapids, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) west of Interstate 380 . HISTORY Cedar Rapids' first airport was Hunter Field, a private airport established by Dan Hunter in the 1920s. It was located along Bowling Street SW north of U.S. Highway 30 . The airport was originally used for private charter service, pilot training, and Airmail , but it was inoperable during bad weather. This led to the need for a new airport. The Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport was completed with military funding in 1944 but was not officially dedicated until April 27 , 1947 . The Cedar Rapids Parks Department operated the airport until a new Airport Commission was established in 1945; Donald Hines, who led the effort to build the airport, was the commission's director until he retired in 1973 (he died in 1975). Scheduled east-west passenger service from United Airlines began in 1947, and north-south passenger service from Ozark Airlines began in 1957. By 1969, the airport handled 31 commercial flights per day and recorded 353,000 passengers a year. The present terminal was dedicated in 1986 with a ceremony that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole attended. The Cedar Rapids Airport was renamed The Eastern Iowa Airport in 1997 in order to reflect its status as a regional airport. In 2000 the airport enplaned and deplaned one million passengers for the first time in its history; it set a record in 2005 with 1,004,434 passengers. {Link without Title} AIRLINES
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