Glasgow Air Force Base
Glasgow Air Force Base
 
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| Part of Strategic Air Command/Air Defense Command | |
| St. Marie, Valley County, near Glasgow, Montana | |
USGS aerial photo as of 2006. Note the "Christmas tree" at bottom right.
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 Glasgow AFB
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| Coordinates | 48°25′16″N 106°31′40″W / 48.42111°N 106.52778°WCoordinates: 48°25′16″N 106°31′40″W / 48.42111°N 106.52778°W |
| Type | Air Force Base |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1957 |
| In use | 1957-1968 1971-1976 |
Glasgow Air Force Base (GAFB, former ICAO: KGSG; 1957–1968, 1971–1976) is a former United States Air Force base located approximately 17 miles (27 km) north of the city of Glasgow, Valley County, Montana, not far from the Canada–US border. Prior to DoD ownership, 605 acres (245 ha) of this land were used as a municipal airport and the rest for agricultural purposes.
Today the facility is all but unused, being known as Glasgow Industrial Airport (FAA LID: 07MT) which had 30 aircraft landings/takeoffs in 1991. In recent years, the former Air Force Base has seen intermittent use as a testing site for Boeing aircraft designs. The former base housing area is now the residential community of St. Marie, Montana, though most of the buildings remain vacant.
Construction of the base began in 1955, and GAFB was activated in 1957 as part of Air Defense Command (ADC). It was used as a base for interceptors, which initially operated from a single 8,900-foot (2,700 m) runway.
Glasgow was the home of the ADC 476th Fighter Group from 1957 to 1960, and the 13th Fighter Interceptor Squadron from 1959 to 1968, which were equipped with the F-101 Voodoo.
The base was transferred to the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1960. With the transfer, the runway length was significantly increased to 13,500 feet (4,100 m), to support the coming operation of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and Boeing KC-135 tankers.
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