Hutchinson County Airport

Hutchinson County Airport
IATA: BGD – ICAO: KBGD – FAA LID: BGD
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Hutchinson County
Serves Hutchinson County, Texas
Location Borger, Texas
Elevation AMSL 3,055 ft / 931 m
Coordinates 35°42′03″N 101°23′37″W / 35.70083°N 101.39361°W / 35.70083; -101.39361
Website HutchinsonCountyAirport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 6,300 1,920 Asphalt
3/21 3,898 1,188 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 5,610
Based aircraft 24

Hutchinson County Airport (IATA: BGD, ICAO: KBGD, FAA LID: BGD) is a county-owned airport[1] two miles north of Borger, Texas. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation facility.[2]

Facilities

The airport covers 370 acres (150 ha) at an elevation of 3,055 feet (931 m). It has two asphalt runways: 17/35 is 6,300 by 100 feet (1,920 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 3,898 by 100 feet (1,188 x 30 m).[1]

In the year ending June 27, 2009 the airport had 5,610 aircraft operations, average 108 per day: 62% local general aviation, 37% transient general aviation, and <1% military. 24 aircraft were then based at the airport: 83% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, and 13% ultralight.[1]

Hutchinson County Airport has four certified instrument approach procedures: two RNAV (GPS), one VOR/DME, and one VOR approach.[3]

Historical airline service

The airport was previously served with scheduled passenger flights operated by Central Airlines followed by successor Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) and then later by commuter air carrier Air Central.

Central Airlines began serving Borger during the early 1950s with direct, no change of plane flights operated with 24-passenger seat Douglas DC-3 aircraft to Dallas Love Field, Fort Worth (via both Amon Carter Field and Meacham Field), Oklahoma City and Tulsa via intermediate en route stops at smaller cities in Oklahoma.[4] In 1966, Central was continuing to operate DC-3 flights into the airport with a routing of Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO-Amarillo-Borger-Oklahoma City-Bartlesville, OK-Parsons, KS-Kansas City.[5] Central was then acquired by and merged into Frontier which in 1967 was flying Convair 600 turboprop service on a routing of Amarillo-Borger-Oklahoma City-Bartlesville, OK-Kansas City.[6] By 1970, Frontier had discontinued its Borger service.[7] In 1979, commuter air carrier Air Central was operating nonstop flights to Oklahoma City with Piper Navajo twin prop aircraft.[8]

The airport currently does not have scheduled passenger air service.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for BGD (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective June 30, 2011.
  2. ↑ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF, 2.03 MB). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. External link in |work= (help)
  3. ↑ "Hutchinson County Airport". AirNav. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
  4. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, Dec. 1, 1953 Central Airlines system timetable
  5. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, Feb. 1, 1966 Central Airlines system timetable
  6. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, Oct. 29, 1967 Frontier Airlines system timetable
  7. ↑ http://www.departedflights.com, Oct. 25, 1970 Frontier Airlines route map
  8. ↑ http://www.departedflights.com, Feb. 6, 1979 Air Central route map

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