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POINTER · South Bend's whole, not dug here
Lakeville's metropolitan field stands 12.61 miles straight-line north (computed) — and no record reached ties it to Lakeville. The name line, brief, at history-page and federal-record strength: South Bend International Airport (SBN) — begun 1929, when Vincent Bendix purchased 610 acres northwest of South Bend; opened 1933 as Bendix Municipal Airport; then in sequence Bendix Field, Bendix Field–St. Joseph County Airport, St. Joseph County Airport, Michiana Regional Airport, Michiana Regional Transportation Center, South Bend Regional Airport (1 January 2000) and South Bend International Airport (23 April 2014). The federal record as republished: identifier SBN, at 41.7082239, −86.3173375, "3 miles NW of SOUTH BEND, IN," open to the public, its owner as the record publishes it the St. Joseph County Airport Authority, the record's activation line reading April 1940 — a federal-record date that prints beside the history page's 1933 opening as the two instruments' separate facts.No route map is printed, deliberately: no dated November 2026 carrier-and-destination set from the airport's own hand was opened or verified, and the secondary carriers reached conflict or are stale (one crawled this month counts four airlines and twelve nonstop destinations; an April 2026 carrier names three airlines; a third is dated August 2024) — this section's rule is that a route map without a verified as-of date fails, so the pointer prints without one, and the verified current map is named as the South Bend build's gap (gap G-AIR-7). The Lakeville tie test was run expressly, at the pattern of the sister build's ground-and-workforce test: no airport record, history page or carrier searched names Lakeville — not as a served town (the field's own serves-line lists South Bend, Elkhart, Niles and St. Joseph, Michigan), not as workforce, not as a ground share. Tested negative, printed as such.
Principal sources: the airport's history page (flysbn.com) and the FAA record via AirNav (effective 22 January 2026), both at pointer strength; the conflicting secondary carriers named in the text as the reason no route map prints.