Maintenance
What is Black?
This month of the 2025-2026 snow season was Traverse City's 4th snowiest on record:
a) January
b) November
c) December
d) February
What is (a), January? (According to NWS data)
This is TVC's newest drivable piece of equipment (for the Ops and Maintenance department)
What is the Skid Steer?
This is the total cost of the terminal expansion:
a) $50 million
b) $100 million
c) $78.9 million
d) $120 million
What is (d), $120 million?
The green spaces of “Parks and Recreation” can be found in fictional Pawnee in this real Midwestern state.
What is Indiana?
This is the only passenger boarding bridge the NRAA is responsible for maintaining
What is PBB #6?
This terminal restroom had the worst HappyOrNot passenger feedback in 2025.
What is Men's Airside? (3,863 instances of negative feedback)
This is TVC's oldest drivable piece of equipment:
a) RTV 23
b) Holder 30
c) Plow 17
d) Paint Truck 25
What is (d), Paint Truck 25? Manufactured in 1986
(Plow 17 - 1988
Holder 30 - 1997)
According to Airport estimates, relocating the airport further outside of town would cost about this much:
a) $100 billion
b) $50 million
c) Give the maintainers a few loaders and some straps and it could probably be done in a 4-day weekend.
d) $6 billion
What is (d), $6 billion?
She had a #1 hit in each year of the 90s—the only singer to do so.
Who is Mariah Carey?
We use this type of grease on TVC's snow removal equipment:
What is Lithium grease?
This day was TVC's busiest for passenger traffic in 2025:
a) July 4th
b) July 6th
c) August 8th
d) June 2nd
What is (b), July 6th?
Sunday, 7/6/25 was TVC's busiest day on record, with 3,992 passengers enplaned.
The equipment identification number for the NRAA's forklift is:
a) 41
b) 46
c) 51
d) 75
What is (b), 46?
In addition to restrooms, a mother's room, service animal relief area and senior changing table, the expanded terminal will include which passenger amenity?
a) Ping-pong
b) Sensory room
c) Sleeping pods
d) Ax throwing
What is (b), Sensory room?
Wyoming’s largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park.
What is Yellowstone Lake?
The NRAA is responsible for maintaining the PAPI lighting system for which runway?
What is Runway 28?
This species of bird was struck the most in 2025
a) Ring-billed gull (seagull)
b) Crow
c) Mourning dove
d) Snowy owl
What is (c), Mourning Dove?
From which airport did TVC acquire new Sweeper 20?
What is Lansing Capital Region International Airport?
A PFC (passenger facility charge), paid by travelers when purchasing airline tickets to help maintain and improve airports, is how much money per ticket?
a) 1% of ticket cost
b) $3.50
c) $4.50
d) Only first class passengers are charged, $5 per ticket
What is (c), $4.50? The PFC is included in the ticket price, collected by the airline and paid to the Airport.
Known for his “Four Seasons,” this Italian composer was a virtuoso violinist.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This creek passes through Runway 28's clear zone and must be avoided during mowing operations.
What is Mitchel creek?
There are this many non-movement area boundary markings on our airfield:
a) 10
b) 20
c) 12
d) 13
What is (d), 13?
A fully equipped and operational Wausau snow mauler has this many tires:
What is 14 tires?
TVC's terminal expansion, "Gates to the Future", will add this much area to the terminal building:
a) 98,000 sqft
b) 68,000 sqft
c) The expansion will actually shrink the terminal but bigger windows will make it feel larger
d) 20,000 sqft
What is (b), 68,000 sqft?
This Bronx native with a hyphenated name wowed politicos with a Big Apple win in 2018.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? (AOC)