| Glasgow Airport Wokal Field |
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| USGS aerial image, 1996 | |||
| IATA: GGW – ICAO: KGGW – FAA LID: GGW
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Glasgow / Valley County | ||
| Serves | Glasgow, Montana | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,296 ft / 700 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 12/30 | 5,001 | 1,524 | Asphalt |
| 8/26 | 5,000 | 1,524 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2009) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 30,010 | ||
| Based aircraft | 79 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Glasgow Airport (IATA: GGW, ICAO: KGGW, TC LID: GGW), also known as Wokal Field/Glasgow International Airport, is a public airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Glasgow, a city in Valley County, Montana, United States.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
The airport has commercial service on one airline subsidized by the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program. Great Lakes Airlines provides USDOT EAS service to Glasgow, effective March 2009.[3]
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Glasgow Army Air Field, 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 Second Bombardment Group arrived at Glasgow Army Air Field on 29 November 1942. Heavy bomber squadrons of the time usually consisted of 8 B-17s with 37 officers and 229 enlisted men. The satellite field was used by B-17 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 1 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. [4]
The airport covers an area of 1,552 acres (628 ha) at an elevation of 2,296 feet (700 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 12/30 is 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m) and 8/26 is 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2009, the airport had 30,010 aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day: 65% general aviation, 35% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 79 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, and 1% jet.[1]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Gulfstream International Airlines | Billings, Wolf Point [5] |