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Present day, stated as of 2026
The airport's other economy runs at night and in the hangars: FedEx Express flies South Bend to Memphis, with FedEx Feeder service by CSA Air to Indianapolis; air cargo through the field ran 19.2 million pounds in 2024. For one holiday season the cargo ramp had a widebody: UPS flew an Airbus A300 at South Bend from 24 November 2020 to 4 January 2021 for peak-season freight. SkyWest Airlines keeps a maintenance base at the airport — fitting for the carrier that operates nearly half the field's passenger traffic — and Atlantic Aviation is the fixed-base operator of record in the modern era. The tower's numbers place the field in the state: in 2024 the FAA tower at South Bend logged 44,508 operations and its TRACON 165,345, for 209,853 total air-traffic operations, the second-busiest tower and radar operation in Indiana after Indianapolis. The airport's address is 4477 Progress Drive; the airfield the address sits on is the same 610-acre purchase of 1929, grown to 2,200 acres.
Sources:
- Michiana Business News — the UPS Airbus A300 holiday cargo operation at SBN, 24 November 2020 – 4 January 2021; St. Joseph County Airport Authority 2024 composite statistics — air cargo 19.2 million pounds, ATCT operations 44,508, TRACON 165,345, total ATC operations 209,853.
- The airport's operator record — FedEx Express to Memphis and CSA Air feeder service to Indianapolis; the SkyWest Airlines maintenance base; Atlantic Aviation as FBO (named in the 2013 NTSB docket records).