Gainesville Municipal Airport

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Gainesville Municipal Airport

IATA: GLE – ICAO: KGLE – FAA: GLE
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Gainesville
Serves Gainesville, Texas
Elevation AMSL 845 ft / 258 m
Coordinates 33°39′05″N 097°11′49″W / 33.65139, -97.19694
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 4,296 1,309 Asphalt
17/35 6,000 1,829 Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 20,200
Based aircraft 70
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Gainesville Municipal Airport (IATA: GLE, ICAO: KGLE, FAA LID: GLE) is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Gainesville, a city in Cooke County, Texas, United States. It is owned and operated by the City of Gainesville.[1]

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[edit] History

The airport was opened in August 1941 as Gainesville Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base to provide photographic intelligence for air and ground forces.

Known units which trained at Gainesville were the 8th and 426th Reconnaissance Groups. They flew a wide variety of aircraft, including the P-38 Lightning (F-5), P-51 Mustang (F-6), B-24 Liberator (F-7) and P-40 Warhawk.

The 8th Reconnaissance group was deployed to India in 1944 to support 10th and 14th Air Forces in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater.

At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Gainesville Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,336 acres (541 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 17/35 measuring 6,000 x 100 ft. (1,829 x 30 m) and 12/30 measuring 4,296 x 80 ft. (1,309 x 24 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 30, 2005, the airport had 20,200 aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day: 99.5% general aviation and 0.5% military. At that time there were 70 aircraft based at this airport: 66% single-engine, 21% multi-engine, 9% jet, 3% helicopter and 1% ultralight.[1]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for GLE (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
  • Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

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