New Braunfels Regional Airport recently earned a designation as a national airport within the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The designation places the airport as one of only 11 such national airports in Texas and one of 92 such airports in the United States.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, or NPIAS, identifies 3,310 existing and proposed airports included in the national airport system, consisting of all commercial service airports, all reliever airports and certain publicly owned general aviation airports.Â
General aviation airports are public-use airports that do not have scheduled service or have less than 2,500 annual passenger boardings.Â