Goodland Municipal Airport

Goodland Municipal Airport (IATA: GLD, ICAO: KGLD, FAA LID: GLD) (Renner Field) is two miles north of Goodland, in Sherman County, Kansas.[1]

Goodland Municipal Airport

Renner Field
USGS aerial image, 28 August 1991
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Goodland
ServesGoodland, Kansas
Elevation AMSL3,656 ft / 1,114 m
Coordinates39°22′14″N 101°41′56″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 5,499 1,676 Concrete
5/23 3,501 1,067 Asphalt
17/35 1,800 549 Turf
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations43,000
Based aircraft22

Facilities

The airport covers 372 acres (151 ha) at an elevation of 3,656 feet (1,114 m). It has three runways: 12/30 is 5,499 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m) concrete; 5/23 is 3,501 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m) asphalt; 17/35 is 1,800 by 40 feet (549 x 12 m) turf.[1]

In the year ending July 16, 2007 the airport had 43,000 aircraft operations, average 117 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. 22 were then aircraft based at the airport: 77% single-engine and 23% multi-engine.[1]

History

Provided contract glider training to the United States Army Air Forces, 1942-1943. Training provided by William A. Ong under AAFTC 22d Glider Training Detachment. Used primarily C-47 Skytrains and Waco CG-4 unpowered Gliders. Training began on 8 June 1942. The mission of the school was to train glider pilot students in proficiency in operation of gliders in various types of towed and soaring flight, both day and night, and in servicing of gliders in the field.

During wartime the airport had four compacted soil runways; aligned N/S; NE/SW; E/W and NW/SE, all about 2,800' long with NE/SW 3,600' long. Former NW/SE runway now paved and used as main, others still visible in aerial photography. Training ended on 29 August 1943 due to shortage of equipment. Glider training mission was taken over by I Troop Carrier Command, and the airport was used as an axillary airfield until the end of the war. Was returned to civil control in September 1945.

Goodland Municipal had scheduled airline service on Air Midwest to Denver, Colorado's Stapleton International Airport in the 1980s.[2][3]

See also

References
  1. FAA Airport Master Record for GLD (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
  2. Braniff - September 1, 1989 Timetable, Departed Flights, Retrieved 2013-05-01
  3. Air Midwest - February 15, 1986 System Timetable, Departed Flights, Retrieved 2013-05-01

Other sources
  •  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
  • Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
  • Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942-2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC


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