WILLMAR -- A blue and white Piper Warrior II owned by Willmar Air Service was the first airplane to land when the new Willmar Municipal Airport opened at 2 p.m. on a partly cloudy Tuesday afternoon.

A Piper Warrior II made a successful emergency landing Friday in the westbound lanes of Interstate 8 just a few miles southeast of Gillespie Field in El Cajon California. Twenty-five-year-old ...