Scholes International Airport
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Scholes International Airport at Galveston (former Galveston Army Air Field) |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Galveston | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Galveston, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 6 ft / 2 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°15′55″N 094°51′38″W / 29.26528°N 94.86056°WCoordinates: 29°15′55″N 094°51′38″W / 29.26528°N 94.86056°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.GalvestonAirport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations | 61,087 |
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| Based aircraft | 121 |
Scholes International Airport at Galveston (IATA: GLS, ICAO: KGLS, FAA LID: GLS) is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Galveston, a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a reliever airport.
The airport currently provides charter service and does not provide any commercial service. However, the airport's runways can accommodate airplanes as large as the Boeing 767-200.
Operated and maintained by the City of Galveston, GLS is a general aviation airport serving diverse aviation segments. It has enjoyed passenger service provided by several airlines in its history, including Trans-Texas Airways "TTA", the forerunner to Texas International Airlines, which itself, purchased National Airlines and later merged with (then) Denver based Continental Airlines... and ultimately merged with United Airlines. During the 1950s, Braniff Airways (later Braniff International) and Houston Metro Airlines, which operated a fleet of de Havilland Canada DHC6 "Twin Otters". At one point in the late 1960s, TTA operated Convair 600 twin turboprop service nonstop to both Houston and Beaumont/Port Arthur with continuing one stop, direct flights to Dallas and Austin. In the early 1950s, Braniff International provided Douglas DC-3 service to Houston International (later named William P. Hobby Airport), that directly connected to their Douglas DC-6 flights featuring "Million-aire" service from Houston to Dallas, Kansas City and Chicago. In later years, scheduled passenger air service from Galveston was operated by Houston Metro Airlines with De Havilland of Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters (twin turboprop aircraft) to Houston Intercontinental Airport (KIAH) with some of these flights making an intermediate stop in Clear Lake City (CLC airport), located near the NASA Johnson Space Center. A small commuter air carrier, Texas Airlines, also served the airport during the mid-1980s with flights to Houston Intercontinental Airport that were operated with Piper Navajo aircraft.
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