sentences:  The first turboprop arrived in September after a fifty-minute flight from New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK); the arrival in Keene was greeted by 500 people which included city officials and airport personnel.By 1969, Northeast was operating up to seven departures a day from the airport with the FH-227 propjet, with nonstop flights to New York LaGuardia Airport, Lebanon, NH, and Montpelier/Barre, VT.In 1967 the FAA recommended a $1.8 million series of improvements which would include further extending the runways, the construction of a control tower, improved buildings, and other facilities.