Chicago Rockford International Airport or Greater Rockford Airport (IATA: RFD, ICAO: KRFD, FAA LID: RFD), is a general aviation and commercial airport in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. It is located 68 miles (109 km) northwest of Chicago and four miles (6 km) south of Rockford. The airport served over 215,000 passengers in 2007.
RFD traces its history back to 1917, when Camp Grant — a U.S. Army Cavalry Camp was established during the...
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Chicago Rockford International Airport or Greater Rockford Airport (IATA: RFD, ICAO: KRFD, FAA LID: RFD), is a general aviation and commercial airport in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. It is located 68 miles (109 km) northwest of Chicago and four miles (6 km) south of Rockford. The airport served over 215,000 passengers in 2007.
RFD traces its history back to 1917, when Camp Grant — a U.S. Army Cavalry Camp was established during the First World War. During the events of World War II, Camp Grant was made into a military training base and prisoner of war confinement center.
Following the war, the state of Illinois adopted the Airport Authority Act. The Greater Rockford Airport Authority was created in 1946. For more than forty years this airport was referred to as the Greater Rockford airport. In 1987, the current passenger terminal was built in an effort to attract more passenger service. Rockford had been primarily seen as a regional airport at that time. Six years later...
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