Portsmouth International Airport at Pease , formerly known as Pease International Airport, is a joint civil and military use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Portsmouth, a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. It is owned by the Pease Development Authority. 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 located within the Pease International Tradeport, a result of the ongoing redevelopment of the former Pease Air Force Base which was closed under Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission action in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Usage Military The airport shares its runway with the Pease Air National Guard Base, which is actively utilized by the 157th Air Refueling Wing (157 ARW) of the New Hampshire Air National Guard, an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained Air National Guard unit operating KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tankers. The 64th Air Refueling Squadron (64 ARS), an active duty Air Force unit of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing (22 ARW) at McConnell AFB, is also embedded and located with the 157 ARW at Pease ANGB. Pease was one of seven Launch Abort Sites and one of 18 Emergency Landing Sites for NASA Space Shuttle orbiters. Civilian Domestic and international terminal passenger service by the third iteration of Pan American Airways began in 1999 and lasted until the airline's demise in 2004; other past operators include Business Express / Delta Connection (1993–?), Allegiant Air (2005–2007), and Skybus Airlines (2007-2008). Frontier Airlines began offering service to their hub in Orlando, Florida, on December 6, 2018, but abandoned the route after only 6 months. Allegiant Air returned in October 2013, and offers service to several destinations. An expanded passenger terminal opened on January 22, 2021, for customers of Allegiant Air. The airport is the current base for PlaneSense, a company that offers fractional aircraft ownership programs. Facilities and aircraft Portsmouth International Airport at Pease covers an area of at an elevation of 100 feet (30 m) above mean sea level. It has one concrete and asphalt paved runway designated 16/34 which measures 11,322 by 150 feet (3,451 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2019, the airport had 42,282 aircraft operations, an average of 116 per day: 68% general aviation, 10%