Langlade County Airport

is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Antigo, a city in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AIG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KAIG Great Circle Mapper: KAIG - Langlade County Airport - Antigo, Wisconsin] ] (which assigned AIG to Yalinga in the Central African Republic [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/AIG Great Circle Mapper: AIG / FEFY - Yalinga, Central African Republic] ] ).

Facilities and aircraft

Langlade County Airport covers an area of 440 acres (178 ha) at an elevation of 1,521 feet (464 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 16/34 is 4,001 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m); 8/26 is 3,400 by 75 feet (1,036 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending September 27, 2005, the airport had 8,250 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 1% military.

ANTIGO (AIG) Non-directional beacon, 347 kHz, is located at the field.

Antigo Air LLC is the Fixed base operator.

In March 2008, the Governor of Wisconsin approved plans to construct a new T-hangar for nearly $400,000 with the Federal Aviation Administration providing the bulk of the funding. [ [http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/opencms/export/nr/modules/news/news_0620.html_786229440.html Governor Doyle approves $391,729 project at Langlade County Airport] . March 4, 2008.]

Incidents

*2 people were killed December 9, 1993 when their Piper PA-32R-300 crashed while attempting to land during IFR weather conditions. [ [http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001211X13827&key=1 NTSB Identification: CHI94FA048. Accident occurred December 9, 1993 in Antigo, Wisconsin] .]

ee also

*List of airports in Wisconsin

References

External links

* [http://www.co.langlade.wi.us/airportlangladecounty.htm Airport page] at Langlade County website
* [http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/air/docs/airports/antigo.pdf Langlade County Airport] at Wisconsin DOT Airport Directory
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