Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport

Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport^[1][2] (IATA: RUT, ICAO: KRUT, FAA LID: RUT), is a state-owned, public use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) south of the central business district of Rutland, a city in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.^[1] Situated in North Clarendon, it was formerly known as Rutland State Airport. Scheduled commercial service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service and provided by Cape Air, with three flights daily on eleven-passenger Tecnam P2012 Traveller aircraft to Boston with typical flight times of 40 minutes.^[3]

Rutland – Southern Vermont Regional Airport
Aerial photo, September 2007
IATA: RUT ICAO: KRUT FAA LID: RUT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Vermont
Serves	Rutland, Vermont
Location	North Clarendon
Elevation AMSL	787 ft / 240 m
Coordinates	43°31′48″N 072°56′59″W
Website	www.flyrutlandvt.com
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1/19 5,304 1,617 Asphalt 13/31 3,169 966 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/31/2017 13,091 Based aircraft 23
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport is the closest commercial service airport to the mountain resorts of Killington, Pico, Okemo, Stratton, Bromley, Magic Mountain, and Mount Snow .

Name change

Legislation was introduced into the Vermont Senate in January 2007 to change the official name of the airport to Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport.^[4] The state agency of transportation, meanwhile, had plans to change the name to Rutland/Southwest Vermont Regional Airport. This provoked some opposition from the town of Bennington on the grounds that the William H. Morse State Airport (located in the town), is currently known as "Southwest Vermont's Airport". The agency indicated that it intended to go ahead with the name change anyway, claiming that Bennington's opposition came too late in the process.^[5] However, the agency changed the name to Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport on August 15, 2007.^[6][7]

Facilities and aircraft

Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport covers an area of 345 acres (140 ha) at an elevation of 787 feet (240 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 01/19 is 5,304 by 100 feet (1,525 x 30 m) and 13/31 is 3,169 by 75 feet (966 x 23 m).^[1] Runway 19 has a 300-foot EMAS arresting system on the end.

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2017, the airport had 13,091 aircraft operations, an average of 16 per day: 86% general aviation, 14% air taxi, and 0.2% military. At that time there were 23 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine and 4% multi-engine.^[1]

Airline and destination

The following airline offers scheduled passenger service:^[8]

Airlines	Destinations
Cape Air	Boston

Destinations map
Rutland Boston All destinations from Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport (RUT). • Red represents year-round destinations. • Green represents seasonal destinations. • Orange represents future destinations.

Statistics

Rutland–Southern Vermont is an FAA Part 139 certificated airport. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had the following passenger boardings ("enplanements") in recent calendar years:

Passenger boardings (enplanements) by year, as per the FAA^[9]

Year	2009 [10]	2010 [11]	2011 [12]	2012 [13]	2013 [14]	2014 [15]	2015 [16]	2016 [17]	2017 [18]	2018 [19]	2019[20]
Enplanements	4,458	5,530	5,997	5,916	5,321	5,407	5,379	5,146	5,024	5,554	5,488
Change	012.00%	024.05%	08.44%	01.35%	010.06%	01.62%	00.52%	04.33%	02.37%	010.55%	01.19%
Airline	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air	Cape Air
Destination(s)	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston	Boston

The airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2013–2017, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).^[21] Total air cargo carried in 2006 was approximately 520,000 pounds with 1,560 cargo operations via FedEx and UPS.

See also

• List of airports in Vermont

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for RUT PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 13, 2023.
2. Rutland – Southern Vermont Regional Airport (official site)
3. "Cape Air Plans Service To Rutland; Two-Year EAS Subsidy To Support Round-Trip Flights To Logan Airport". Rutland Business Journal. October 15, 2007. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
4. Vermont Legislative: 2007–2008 Session, Bill S.0033: The Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport
5. "Bennington sought say in airport renaming". Rutland Herald. January 26, 2007.
6. "Airport rebranded; Officials hope new name better defines facility, region". Rutland Herald. August 16, 2007.
7. "Airport that serves Rutland has new name". Associated Press. August 16, 2007.^{[dead link‍]}
8. "Rutland Southern VT Regional (RUT)". Vermont Agency of Transportation. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
9. "Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) and All-Cargo Data for U.S. Airports – Airports". www.faa.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
10. "2009 Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports (by State)" (PDF, 891 KB). CY 2009 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. November 23, 2010.
11. "2010 Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports (by State)" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
12. "2011 Enplanements at Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports (by State)" (PDF). CY 2011 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. October 9, 2012.
13. "2012 Enplanements at All Airports (Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation) by State and Airport" (PDF). CY 2012 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. October 31, 2013.
14. "CY 2013 Enplanements at all Airports" (PDF).
15. "CY 2014 Enplanements for all Airports" (PDF).
16. "CY 2015 Enplanements at all Airports" (PDF).
17. "CY 2016 Enplanements at all Airports" (PDF).
18. "CY 2017 Enplanements at all Airports" (PDF).
19. "2018 Enplanements at All Airports (Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation) by State and Airport" (PDF, 1.05 MB). CY 2018 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
20. "CY 2019 Enplanements at all Airports" (PDF).
21. "2013–2017 NPIAS Report, Appendix A". National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. September 27, 2012. Archived from the original on May 1, 2014.

Other sources

• Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-2005-21681) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
  • Order 2005-8-23 (August 30, 2005): re-selecting Champlain Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a CommutAir, to provide essential air service at Rutland, Vermont, at an annual subsidy rate of $849,705, for the two-year period November 1, 2005, through October 31, 2007.
  • Order 2007-6-6 (June 6, 2007): prohibiting Champlain Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a CommutAir, operating as Continental Connection, from terminating its subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Plattsburgh and Saranac Lake/Lake Placid, New York, and Rutland, Vermont, at the end of its 90-day notice period, and requesting long-term proposals from carriers interested in providing EAS at all three communities, for a new two-year period, with or without subsidy.
  • Order 2007-9-13 (September 13, 2007): selecting Big Sky Transportation Co., d/b/a Big Sky Airlines, operating as Delta Connection, to provide subsidized EAS at Plattsburgh and Saranac Lake/Lake Placid, New York, utilizing 19-seat Beech 1900-D aircraft, at an annual subsidy rate of $2,408,294, and Hyannis Air Service, Inc., d/b/a Cape Air, to provide subsidized EAS at Rutland, Vermont, with 9-seat Cessna 402s, at annual subsidy rate of $839,746. The carriers will provide EAS at their respective communities for two-year terms beginning when they inaugurate full service.
  • Order 2009-8-11 (August 18, 2009): re-selecting Hyannis Air Service, Inc., d/b/a Cape Air, operating as JetBlue Airways code-share partner, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Rutland, Vermont, for the four-year period of November 1, 2009, through October 31, 2013, for an annual subsidy rate of $797,151.

External links

• Rutland – Southern Vermont Regional Airport
• Rutland Southern VT Regional (RUT) at Vermont Airport Directory
• Aerial image as of May 1994 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for RUT, effective October 31, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for RUT
  • AirNav airport information for KRUT
  • ASN accident history for RUT
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures