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1949–2025 · SBN (boundary)
The runway line: in the 1950s runway 9 was 5,000 feet; it was extended to 6,000 feet in 1963–65; the field today works three runways — 9R/27L at 8,400 feet, 18/36 at 6,000, and 9L/27R at 4,300. The terminal line: the 1949 terminal was built for 25,000 passengers a year and handled some 400,000; the present terminal was built in 1981 (HOK and Cole Associates) and expanded in 2011, with additions in 1986 and 1994 bringing the complex to roughly 155,000 square feet in authority-side accounts. The concourse expansion — 45,000 square feet and five gates, opened November 2010 with a final phase in February 2012 — carries two prices in the sources reached, printed whole: $15.8 million (Airport Improvement) and $14 million (the Tribune). The largest recent build is priced by the airport's own 2025 reporting: a seven-year, $105 million taxiway Bravo realignment and ramp reconstruction, completed September 2025, letting all nine gates accept large mainline aircraft. The governing body: the St. Joseph County Airport Authority, established 1 January 1974 by the County Council (under Indiana Code 8-22-3), which has owned and operated the field since — the authority form that replaced direct county operation (art-53-2). Osceola's share is the county share: a township of the county the authority serves.
Sources: airport reference and authority records for runways and the authority's 1974 establishment; Airport Improvement and the South Bend Tribune for the concourse cost conflict; South Bend Tribune (February 2026) for the $105 million taxiway project.