Its long runway made it particularly attractive for intercontinental service via supersonic transport (SST), then under development in the U.S. In the early 1970s, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's administration saw the potential for Stewart to support the metropolitan area. Stewart International Airport MTA Expansion plan Stewart ANGB also hosts VMGR-452, a Marine Corps Reserve squadron flying the KC-130J. This area of the airport, now called Stewart Air National Guard Base, was home to the Air Force C-5 Galaxy aircraft before being replaced by the newer and smaller C-17 Globemaster III in 2011. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for humanitarian relief efforts. The Air National Guard unit has flown support missions not only for U.S. The air force base was deactivated in 1970 and it officially remained unoccupied by the Air Force until 1983 when the 105th Airlift Wing (105 AW) and the 213th Engineer Installation Squadron (213 EIS) of the New York Air National Guard took up quarters. It remained so until the deactivation of the Nike Hercules system at the end of 1974. Stewart became the home of Headquarters 1st Region Army Air Defense Command in 1966. With the city strapped for cash due to the Depression, however, it was unable to develop it in any way.įor the former Air Force Base near Smyrna, Tennessee, with a similar spelling, see Sewart Air Force Base.Īfter the creation of the United States Air Force following World War II, the army airfield was converted to an air force base while still being used for training of cadets at West Point. In 1930 Thomas "Archie" Stewart, an early aviation enthusiast and descendant of prominent local dairy farmer Lachlan Stewart, convinced his uncle Samuel Stewart to donate "Stoney Lonesome", split between the towns of Newburgh and New Windsor, to the nearby city of Newburgh for use as an airport.
1.4.3 New York State Department of Transportation ownership.1.3 Stewart Air Force Base/Stewart Air National Guard Base.
The Port Authority rebranded the airport as New York Stewart International Airport in 2018 to emphasize its proximity to New York City. After postponing its plans to change the facility's name after considerable local opposition, it sold the rights to the airport seven years later the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey board voted to acquire the remaining 93 years of the lease and later awarded AFCO AvPorts the contract to operate the facility. commercial airport privatized when United Kingdom-based National Express was awarded a 99-year lease on the airport. In 2000 the airport became the first U.S. In 1981 the 52 American hostages held in Iran made their return to American soil at Stewart. Air Force base in the 1970, an ambitious plan by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to expand and develop the airport led to a protracted struggle with local landowners that led to reforms in the state's eminent domain laws but no actual development of the land acquired. The Space Shuttle could have landed at Stewart in an emergency.
ĭeveloped in the 1930s as a military base to allow cadets at the nearby United States Military Academy at West Point to learn aviation, it has grown into a significant passenger airport for the mid-Hudson region and continues as a military airfield, housing the 105th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard and Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452 ( VMGR-452) of the United States Marine Corps Reserve. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. The airport is in the Town of Newburgh and the Town of New Windsor. It is in the southern Hudson Valley, west of Newburgh, south of Kingston, and southwest of Poughkeepsie, approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of Manhattan, New York City. Stewart International Airport, officially New York Stewart International Airport ( IATA: SWF, ICAO: KSWF, FAA LID: SWF), is a public/military airport in Orange County, New York, United States.