# Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport

Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport (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. 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.
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. 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. However, the agency changed the name to Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport on August 15, 2007.

## 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). 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.

## Airline and destination

The following airline offers scheduled passenger service:
| Airlines | Destinations |
| Cape Air | Boston |

## 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 :
| Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| 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). Total air cargo carried in 2006 was approximately 520,000 pounds with 1,560 cargo operations via FedEx and UPS.