Topeka Regional Airport, formerly known as Forbes Field, is a public airport owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority in Shawnee County, Kansas, seven miles south of downtown Topeka, the capital city of Kansas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation airport. United Express had scheduled airline flights on January 7, 2014, with two daily departures to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, but ceased on September 2, 2014. Allegiant Air offered scheduled flights to Las Vegas, but discontinued service on July 30, 2007.Topeka Regional Airport is used by the University of Kansas (KU) for charter flights for its athletic teams and by schools visiting the KU campus in Lawrence, which is 34mi east of the airport via the Kansas Turnpike. (Kansas City International Airport is 51mi from KU).Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 14,922 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 11,985 in 2009 and 15,115 in 2010.
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