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

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 6,299 by 100 feet (1,920 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 3,897 by 100 feet (1,188 x 30 m).

In the 12-month period ending September 15, 2021, the airport had 6,010 aircraft operations, average 115 per week: 67% local general aviation, 33% transient general aviation, and <1% military. 18 aircraft were then based at the airport: 16 single-engine, 1 multi-engine, and 1 helicopter.

Hutchinson County Airport has two certified RNAV (GPS) instrument approach procedures.

Past airlines

The airport had scheduled passenger flights on Central Airlines and successor Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) and later on commuter airline Air Central.

Central Airlines began serving Borger in the early 1950s with Douglas DC-3s to Dallas Love Field, Fort Worth (via Amon Carter Field or Meacham Field), Oklahoma City and Tulsa. In 1966 Central DC-3s flew Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO-Amarillo-Borger-Oklahoma City-Bartlesville, OK-Parsons, KS-Kansas City. Central merged into Frontier which in 1967 flew Convair 600s Amarillo-Borger-Oklahoma City-Bartlesville, OK-Kansas City. By 1970 Frontier had left Borger. In 1979 commuter airline Air Central flew Piper Navajos to Oklahoma City.

The airport currently has no airline service.

See also

References

  1. ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for BGD PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective October 5, 2023.
  2. ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on September 27, 2012.
  3. ^ "Hutchinson County Airport". AirNav. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  4. ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, Dec. 1, 1953 Central timetable
  5. ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, Feb. 1, 1966 Central timetable
  6. ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, Oct. 29, 1967 Frontier 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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