Editing Columbus, Ohio (section)

====Airports====
[[File:John Glenn International Airport Departure level.jpg|thumb|[[John Glenn Columbus International Airport]] departure level]]
The city's primary airport, [[John Glenn Columbus International Airport]], is on the city's east side. Formerly known as Port Columbus, John Glenn provides service to [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada, and [[Cancun, Mexico]] (on a seasonal basis), as well as to most domestic destinations, including all the major hubs along with [[San Francisco International Airport|San Francisco]], [[Salt Lake City International Airport|Salt Lake City]] and [[Seattle-Tacoma International Airport|Seattle]]. The airport was a hub for [[Low-cost carrier|discount carrier]] [[Skybus Airlines]] and continues to be home to [[NetJets]], the world's largest [[fractional ownership]] air carrier. According to a 2005 market survey, John Glenn Columbus International Airport attracts about 50% of its passengers from outside of its {{convert|60|mi|km|adj=on}} radius primary service region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://columbusairports.com/files/about-us/craa-eia-full-brochure1.pdf|title=Regional Airports economic impact study, Wilbur Smith Associates, Inc., January 2005, Chap 1 pp2-4|access-date=July 5, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120134939/http://columbusairports.com/files/about-us/craa-eia-full-brochure1.pdf|archive-date=January 20, 2013}}</ref> It is the 52nd-busiest airport in the United States by total passenger boardings.<ref>[[Columbus Dispatch]], February 26, 2012: "Can't get there from here (At least, not without a layover"), pp. D1-2 (By Steve Wartenberg)</ref>

[[Rickenbacker International Airport]], in southern Franklin County, is a major cargo facility that is used by the Ohio [[Air National Guard]]. [[Allegiant Air]] offers nonstop service from Rickenbacker to [[Florida]] destinations. [[Ohio State University Airport|Ohio State University Don Scott Airport]] and [[Bolton Field]] are other large general-aviation facilities in the Columbus area.

=====Aviation history=====
[[File:Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower and Terminal, Columbus, OH, US (06).jpg|thumb|[[Old Port Columbus Terminal|Port Columbus Airport tower and terminal]] from 1929 to 1958]]
[[File:Spirit of Columbus in Udvar-Hazy Center, February 2015.JPG|thumb|[[Jerrie Mock]]'s ''[[Spirit of Columbus]]'', which she piloted in 1964 as the first woman to fly solo around the world, at the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]]]]
In 1907, 14-year-old [[Cromwell Dixon]] built the ''SkyCycle,'' a pedal-powered blimp, which he flew at [[Driving Park]].<ref name=PCI>{{Cite web|date=February 5, 2005|title=75 Years of Flight in Columbus|url=http://www.port-columbus.com/about/75anniv.asp|access-date=December 26, 2022|website=Port Columbus International Airport|archive-date=February 5, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205141621/http://www.port-columbus.com/about/75anniv.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Three years later, one of the [[Wright brothers]]' exhibition pilots, Phillip Parmalee, conducted the world's first commercial cargo flight when he flew two packages containing 88 kilograms of silk {{convert|70|mi}} from Dayton to Columbus in a [[Wright Model B]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allaz|first=Camille|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPLm9omt_YIC|title=History of Air Cargo and Airmail from the 18th Century|date=March 2005|publisher=Google Consultant|isbn=978-0-9548896-0-9|language=en|access-date=September 6, 2015|archive-date=September 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920170756/https://books.google.com/books?id=fPLm9omt_YIC|url-status=live}}</ref>

Military aviators from Columbus distinguished themselves during World War I. Six Columbus pilots, led by top [[Flying ace|ace]] [[Eddie Rickenbacker]], achieved 42 "kills" – a full 10% of all US aerial victories in the war, and more than the aviators of any other American city.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lyon |first=C.C. |date=March 30, 1919 |title=Six Columbus, O., Airmen Shot Down 42 Hun Planes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2984015// |newspaper=[[The Washington Herald]] |location=Washington, DC |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=August 10, 2015 |archive-date=September 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920170742/https://www.newspapers.com/article/2984015/ |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref>

After the war, Port Columbus Airport (now known as [[John Glenn Columbus International Airport]]) became the axis of a coordinated rail-to-air transcontinental system that moved passengers from the East Coast to the West. TAT, which later became [[Trans World Airlines|TWA]], provided commercial service, following [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s promotion of Columbus to the nation for such a hub. Following the failure of a bond levy in 1927 to build the airport, Lindbergh campaigned in the city in 1928, and the next bond levy passed that year.<ref name=PCI /> On July 8, 1929, the airport opened for business with the inaugural TAT westbound flight from Columbus to Waynoka, Oklahoma. Among the 19 passengers on that flight was [[Amelia Earhart]],<ref name=PCI /> with [[Henry Ford]] and [[Harvey Firestone]] attending the opening ceremonies.<ref name=PCI />

In 1964, Ohio native [[Jerrie Mock|Geraldine Fredritz Mock]] became the first woman to fly solo around the world, leaving from and returning to Columbus while piloting the ''[[Spirit of Columbus]]''. Her flight lasted nearly a month and set a record for speed for planes under {{convert|3858|lb}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spirit of Columbus - Ohio History Central|url=https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Spirit_of_Columbus?rec=2731|access-date=December 26, 2022|website=ohiohistorycentral.org|archive-date=December 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226181135/https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Spirit_of_Columbus?rec=2731|url-status=dead}}</ref>