Fort Dodge Regional Airport — Fort Dodge, United States

FOD stands for Fort Dodge Regional Airport, a small commercial and general-aviation facility serving Fort Dodge in north-central Iowa. The airport has received Essential Air Service subsidies at various points to maintain scheduled flights to hub airports like Chicago or Minneapolis, since Fort Dodge's rural location makes unsubsidized commercial service financially difficult to sustain. Agriculture-related aviation, including crop-related charter work, along with general aviation and flight training, rounds out FOD's typical traffic. The airport is an example of the many small regional Iowa airports that rely on federal support programs to keep any scheduled airline presence viable for their surrounding farming communities.