Gainesville Municipal Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Gainesville Municipal Airport

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IATA = GLE
ICAO = KGLE
FAA = GLE
type = Public
owner = City of Gainesville
operator =
city-served = Gainesville, Texas
location =
elevation-f = 845
elevation-m = 258
coordinates = nowrap|coord|33|39|05|N|097|11|49|W|region:US_type:airport
website =
r1-number = 12/30
r1-length-f = 4,296
r1-length-m = 1,309
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 17/35
r2-length-f = 6,000
r2-length-m = 1,829
r2-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 2005
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 20,200
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 70
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=GLE|use=PU|own=PU|site=23911.*A, effective 2007-12-20]

Gainesville Municipal Airport airport codes|GLE|KGLE|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.

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.

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).

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.

See also

* Texas World War II Army Airfields

References

* Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

External links

*FAA-diagram|06113
*US-airport-ga|GLE