Dane County Regional Airport

Dane County Regional Airport is a civil-military airport located six miles northeast of downtown Madison, the capital of Wisconsin. In the Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019–2023, it is categorized as a small-hub primary commercial service facility. It is the second busiest of eight commercial airports in Wisconsin in terms of passengers served.

In 1927, the City of Madison purchased 290 acres of land for $35,380. Previously a cabbage patch for a nearby sauerkraut factory, the newly acquired land would later become the present day home of the Dane County Regional Airport. In January 1936, the city council voted to accept a Works Progress Administration grant for construction of four runways and an airplane hangar. Additional grants financed the terminal and administrative building as well as electric floodlights. The development price tag was $1 million – 10% paid by the city and remainder by the federal government . In September 1938, Barnstormer Howard Morey of Chicago, Edgar Quinn and J.J. McMannamy organized the Madison Airways Corporation.

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