Bangor International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | City of Bangor | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bangor, Maine | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 192 ft / 59 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°48′26″N 068°49′41″W / 44.80722°N 68.82806°WCoordinates: 44°48′26″N 068°49′41″W / 44.80722°N 68.82806°W | ||||||||||
| Website | www.flybangor.com | ||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations (2013) | 42,726 |
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| Based aircraft (2017) | 59 |
Bangor International Airport (IATA: BGR, ICAO: KBGR, FAA LID: BGR) is a joint civil-military public airport on the west side of the city of Bangor, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Owned and operated by the City of Bangor, the airport has a single runway measuring 11,440 by 200 ft (3,487 by 61 m). Formerly a military installation known as Dow Air Force Base, Bangor International Airport remains home to the 101st Air Refueling Wing of the Maine Air National Guard, although most of the Air Force's aircraft and personnel left in the late 1960s.
The airport owes its prosperity to its location on major air corridors between Europe and the East Coast of the United States.
Bangor International is operated as an "enterprise fund", which means that the expense of operating it comes from airport revenue. Revenues are generated by air service operations, resident aviation-related industrial companies, real estate, cargo, international charter flights, and corporate/general aviation traffic. One of three international airports in the state, it serves the residents of central, eastern, and northern Maine as well as parts of Canada.
It was designated by NASA as an emergency landing location for the Space Shuttle.
Bangor International Airport began as Godfrey Field in 1921, on land owned by local attorney Edward Rawson Godfrey (1877–1958). On Aug. 19, 1923, 15 Martin Bombers and 11 DeHaviland Scout Planes under the command of Gen. Billy Mitchell — virtually the entire U.S. Army Air Corps — landed there on a practice mission.
Regular air passenger service to Portland and Boston was begun in 1931 by Boston-Maine Airways, owned by the Boston and Maine and Bangor and Aroostook railroads and under contract to Pan American, which was interested in the airport as a stop on its planned intercontinental air route between the U.S. and Europe. Amelia Earhart was a celebrity pilot on some of the earliest flights for Boston-Maine Airways in the 1930s. The airport was equipped with floodlights for night flights as early as 1937. In 1940, Boston-Maine became Northeast Airlines, which eventually merged with Delta Air Lines in 1972.
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