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Langlade County Airport is a county-owned public-use
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located two
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s (4 km) northeast of the
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of Antigo, a city in Langlade County,
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(FAA)
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for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a basic
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facility. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
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for the
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and
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, this airport is assigned AIG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned AIG to
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).


History

The facility was used by the
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as a contract glider training airfield, known as Antigo Airport. Anderson Air Activities provided preliminary glider training. The school was one of 18 private operator contract schools that ran for 90 days beginning approximately July 6, 1942. There were but a few two place soaring gliders available for training. The Army delivered a few single engine, L type aircraft to be used. The primary training in these aircraft involved so called "dead-stick" landings. The student and instructor flew to various prescribed altitudes up to and the engine was shut off. The student then landed the plane as a glider. By September 1942, the Southeast Air Forces Training Command had been instructed to shut down the school as the shortage of gliders and single engine aircraft did not allow the school to train and produce the number of students required by the USAAF. Antigo Airport was closed, the Army flew the planes out and the land was returned to the local farmers.


Facilities and aircraft

Langlade County Airport covers an area of at an
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of 1,521 feet (464 m) above
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. It has two
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paved
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s: 17/35 is 4,010 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m); 9/27 is 3,400 by 75 feet (1,036 x 23 m). Both runways have approved GPS approaches. The Antigo NDB navaid, (AIG) frequency 347 kHz, is located on the field. For the 12-month period ending August 20, 2020, the airport had 8,250 aircraft operations, an average of 23 per day: roughly 97%
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, 2%
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and 1%
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. In August 2023, there were 18 aircraft based at this airport: all 18 single-engine. Walker Aviation LLC is the
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. In March 2008, the Governor of Wisconsin approved plans to construct a new
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for nearly $400,000 with the
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providing the bulk of the funding.


Incidents

* Two people were killed on December 9, 1993, when their Piper PA-32R-300 crashed while attempting to land during IFR weather conditions.NTSB Identification: CHI94FA048. Accident occurred December 9, 1993 in Antigo, Wisconsin


See also

*
List of airports in Wisconsin This is a list of airports in Wisconsin (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports tha ...
*
Wisconsin World War II Army Airfields In Wisconsin multiple airfields were constructed and used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The main purpose of these installations was for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. A majority of the Wi ...
*
29th Flying Training Wing (World War II) The 29th Flying Training Wing was a wing of the United States Army Air Forces. It was last assigned to the Western Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on 16 June 1946 at Napier Field, Alabama. The wing controlled World War II Phase One p ...


References

* Manning, Thomas A. (2005), ''History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002''. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas * Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), ''Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy'', Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC.


External links


Langlade County Airport website

Langlade County Airport
at the
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The WW II Glider Pilots
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