Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport is a public and military airport in Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, 11 miles north of Youngstown and east of Warren. The airport is home to the Youngstown–Warren Air Reserve Station. The airport has been open for over 50 years. It is run by the Western Reserve Port Authority, made up of members appointed by the Mahoning and Trumbull County Commissioners. The WRPA plays a vital role in the regional economy as it teams with the Youngstown–Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce and is leading the plan to clean up the Mahoning River. History The Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport began as the Youngstown Municipal Airport (MAP), and was one of the last Works Progress Administration projects. Construction began in 1939, and the airport opened a year later. The airport is north of Youngstown in Vienna Center because, during the 1930s and 1940s, little room inside the city limits was available for an airport the size of the one planned. The airport that had been serving the city, Lansdowne Airport, lacked room to expand. In 1981, a 225,000-ft2 production facility for the Commuter Aircraft Corporation was built on the west side of the airport, but the company closed down before any aircraft were built. Capital Airlines, US Airways, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Pan Am Clipper Connection, and Vacation Express had served the airport at some point. In the early 2000s, the airport had no scheduled airline service, following Northwest’s discontinuance of service to Detroit in 2002. In 2006, Allegiant Air began scheduled service to Orlando, Florida, twice weekly, bringing commercial air service back to Youngstown. That service expanded in 2014 with 12 to 18 flights per week to Punta Gorda and St Petersburg/Clearwater, Florida, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Since 2015, service has declined drastically with the addition of Allegiant service in Pittsburgh, Akron, and now Cleveland. Allegiant started flying just two to four times a week during the fall and winter, and six times a week in the summer. In 2008, Vision Airlines announced the start of charter operations to and from Gulfport, Mississippi, once a month. This service has also since ended. On November 30, 2015, the USDOT gave tentative approval for Aerodynamics, Inc. to begin daily service between Youngstown-Warren and Chicago O'Hare International Airport in the spring of 2016, but this flight service was permanently grounded on August 24, 2016, after just six weeks. In