Greater Binghamton Airport
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Greater Binghamton Airport Edwin A. Link Field |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Broome County | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Binghamton, New York | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Maine, New York | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,636 ft / 499 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°12′31″N 075°58′47″W / 42.20861°N 75.97972°WCoordinates: 42°12′31″N 075°58′47″W / 42.20861°N 75.97972°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.FlyBGM.com | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations | 21,542 |
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| Based aircraft | 34 |
Greater Binghamton Airport (IATA: BGM, ICAO: KBGM, FAA LID: BGM) is a county owned airport eight miles north of Binghamton, in Broome County, New York. It is in East Maine, New York and serves the Southern Tier of New York.
The airport was Broome County Airport through the 1970s. It was renamed to honor the inventor of the aircraft instrument simulator, the Link Trainer, as Edwin A. Link Field-Broome County Airport, a name it kept until the 1990s when it was again renamed to the Binghamton Regional Airport. The name Greater Binghamton Airport was chosen in 2003. The field is still named in Link's honor. It's also known as Johnson City Airport.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 108,325 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 98,090 in 2009 and 108,988 in 2010.
The Greater Binghamton Airport (BGM) (originally Broome County Airport) has served Binghamton for six decades. Development started in 1945, due to the overwhelming night operations at the Tri-Cities Airport in Endicott, New York during World War II. Broome County Airport opened in 1951 with a 5,600-foot main Runway 16/34, and a 5,002-foot crosswind Runway 10/28.
To accommodate larger aircraft, the main runway was extended 700 feet in 1969. In the early 1980s the field was renamed Edwin A. Link Field-Broome County Airport in honor of Edwin A. Link a well-known inventor and aviation pioneer in the Binghamton area. Mr. Link was known for the creation of the Link Trainer, which became the first trainer that taught pilots how to fly in instrument meteorological conditions using only the instruments inside the cockpit ("Facility Orientation Guide", n.d.).
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