Alliance Municipal Airport is in Box Butte County, Nebraska, three miles southeast of the city of Alliance, which owns it. Great Lakes Airlines scheduled passenger flights are subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Boutique Airlines will take over Great Lakes' service in June.Great Lakes suffers a $2,450,711 annual operating loss providing service to Alliance and Chadron. The airline receives a $2,619,729 annual subsidy from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the service.Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 1,786 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,395 in 2009 and 1,416 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility (the commercial service category requires 2,500 enplanements per year).HistoryAlliance Municipal Airport was built during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) It was one of eleven USAAF training airfields in Nebraska during World War II. On April 14, 1942, the Secretary of War authorized the establishment of the field. It was built between summer 1942 and August 1943. The 4205acre site is bordered by low rolling sandhills to the east, and a wide plain on the north, west and south. Snake Creek flows through the southern section of the property.
