Berlin Tegel Airport used the airport as a diversion airfield before. Initially, all British Airways services from Tegel—with the exception of the daily non-stop service to London Heathrow—continued to be operated by BAC One-Eleven 500s. The daily London–Heathrow non-stop was operated with Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E/3B equipment based at that airport until the end of the 1975 summer season. (It subsequently reverted to a One-Eleven 500 operation.) From 1983, British Airways began updating its Berlin fleet. This entailed phasing out the ageing One-Elevens, which were replaced with new Boeing 737-200 Adv. During the second half of the 1980s, British Airways augmented its Berlin
Knox County Regional Airport operated by the City of Rockland until 1968. It was then turned over to Knox County and renamed "Knox County Regional Airport". Since that time, the airport has been developed, the runways expanded, and an Instrument Landing System (ILS) was installed. Knox County Regional Airport covers an area of 538 acres (218 ha) at an elevation of 56 feet (17 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 is 5,007 by 100 feet (1,526 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 4,000 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2010,