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Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport

airport in North Dakota, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1656886 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport (IATA: DIK, ICAO: KDIK, FAA LID: DIK), formerly Dickinson Municipal Airport, is six miles south of Dickinson, in Stark County, North Dakota. It is owned by the Dickinson Airport Authority.

The airport serves western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northwest South Dakota, home to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The airport sees one airline, SkyWest Airlines operating on behalf of United Express, flying an Bombardier CRJ200 to Denver; Delta Connection flew to Minneapolis-St. Paul until November 30, 2015. The first airline flights were Frontier DC-3s in 1959.

Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 9,164 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 8,924 in 2009 and 10,383 in 2010.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.

The airport is named for Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the 26th President of the United States.

Facilities

The airport covers 626 acres (253 ha) at an elevation of 2,592 feet (790 m).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport” as airport in North Dakota, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dickinson, Theodore and Roosevelt.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1959, 2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dickinson, Theodore and Roosevelt providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1656886. Authority coordinates are 46.797, -102.802. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 1959, 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.