Glasgow Airport (US)

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Glasgow Airport Wokal Field
IATA: GGW - ICAO: KGGW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Glasgow / Valley County
Serves		Glasgow, Montana
Elevation AMSL		2,296 ft (699.8 m)
Coordinates		48°12′45″N, 106°36′53″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
8/26	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
12/30	5,000	1,524	Asphalt

This article is about the airport in Montana, United States. For the airport in the United Kingdom, click here. For the airport in Prestwick, Ayrshire, United Kingdom, which serves Glasgow, click here.

Glasgow Airport (IATA: GGW, ICAO: KGGW), also known as Wokal Field/Glasgow International Airport, is a public airport located located one mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district (CBD) of Glasgow, a city in Valley County, Montana, United States. The airport covers 1,552 acres and has two runways. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

1 History
2 Military Units at Glasgow
3 Airlines
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Glasgow Army Air Field

Glasgow Army Air Field (Glasgow AAF), also known as the Glasgow Satellite Airfield, was activated on 10 November 1942. It was one of three satellite fields of Great Falls Army Air Base which accommodated a bombardment group. There were four Bomber Squadrons within this group, one located at the Great Falls Army Air Base and one at each of the three satellite air fields at Lewistown, Glasgow and Cut Bank. The 96th Bombardment Squadron of the 2d Bombardment Group arrived at Glasgow Army Air Field on 29 November 1942. The satellite field was used by B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews from the Second Air Force during the second phase of their training. Actual bombing and gunnery training was conducted at the airfield’s associated sites, Glasgow Pattern Bombing Range and the Glasgow Pattern Gunnery Range, though other training sites within the bombardment group were probably also used. The target-towing aircraft assigned to the Fort Peck Aerial Gunnery Range were also stationed at Glasgow. The last unit to complete training at Glasgow Satellite Field was the 614th Bombardment Squadron of the 401st Bombardment Group, which left for England in October 1943. On 01 December 1944 a German prisoner-of-war camp was established at the site. On 15 July 1946 the Glasgow Army Air Field was classified surplus and it was subsequently transferred to the War Assets Administration on 18 November 1946.

[edit] Glasgow Air Force Base

The base was renamed Glasgow Air Force Base (Glasgow AFB) and was reactivated in 1957 as a base for Air Defense Command interceptors, which initially operated from a single 8,900' runway. Glasgow was the home of the 467th Fighter Group from 1957-60, and the 13th Fighter Interceptor Squadron from 1959-68,which were equipped with the F-101B Voodoo. In February 1961 the 326th Bombardment Squadron, equipped with B-52 aircraft, moved to Glasgow as the nucleus for the 4141st Strategic Wing, as part of the Fifteenth Air Force. The 4141st Strategic Wing inactivated on 01 February 1963, and its aircraft were transferred to the to 322nd Bombardment Squadron. Due to Glasgow's pending deactivation, the 91st Bombardment Wing, Heavy departed to Minot AFB, North Dakota in 1968. Glasgow was briefly reactivated as a SAC dispersal base from 1972 to 1976, and was also used as an Army Safeguard ABM depot supporting construction of a second ABM complex northwest of Malmstrom AFB, which was not completed.