Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 2

96 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 with any aviation program in the country. This means that a lot of the students out here taking flight lessons are part of that program – but they do offer private lessons to anyone who just comes off the street as well.” Commercial service at Quincy Regional is provided by Cape Air. They fly daily to Chicago O’Hare and Saint Louis Lambert airports and operated out of the UIN terminal which Hanafin describes as “sort of a famous building.” The terminal was built in 1970 and it echoes the style of that era. In fact, a few years back, when the State of Illinois celebrated its bicentennial, the Quincy Regional Airport terminal was named one of the state’s top 200 architectural wonders. “At the same time as being a notable architectural specimen,” Hanafin explains, “because it was built before 9/11 and all of the changes that have come since then, the terminal is really lacking as far as aircraft