Airports
N.C. airport back to normal again
At Dare County Regional Airport (MQI), N.C., Hank Stock grabs an armload of North Carolina aeronautical charts, centennial year edition, from among thousan

At Dare County Regional Airport (MQI), N.C., Hank Stock grabs an armload of North Carolina aeronautical charts, centennial year edition, from among thousands left over, to pass out like breath mints to the 40 pilots he comes in contact with this cold weekday in late January. There’s no need to reserve a pilot snooze room. The lobby is naptime quiet.

Dare County Regional is one mile northwest of Manteo on the northern tip of Roanoke Island, a two-minute flight from Kitty Hawk, which held the major aviation centennial celebration in December. Airport director George Speak said that in an eight-day period beginning on December 10, MQI saw 3,392 movements. Dare County has now cycled back to the kind of field that makes it a favorite of migratory birds, handling 30 to 60 operations per day.

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