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The airport is named for Lt. Col. Austin Straubel, the first aviator from Brown County to die in his country's service, on February 3, 1942, after having served for thirteen years in the United States Army Air Corps. The airport name was officially changed to Green Bay–Austin Straubel International Airport on August 17, 2016. [5] [6]
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 that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
That same year work began on the air-to-ground gunnery range near Finley, Wisconsin. In 1957, the Wisconsin legislature officially designated the facility a permanent field training site and named it in memory of 1st Lieutenant Jerome A. Volk, the first Wisconsin Air National Guard pilot killed in combat in the Korean War. [7]
Big Foot Airfield, (FAA LID: 7V3) is a privately owned public use airport located 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the central business district of Walworth, a village in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States.
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It is located at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Fox River. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 107,395, making it the third-most populous city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee and Madison , and the third-most populous city on Lake Michigan, after ...
Along with Madison’s Dane County Regional Airport, it is one of two airports in the State of Wisconsin categorized as a small hub. [5] [6] The airport covers 1,638 acres (6.63 km 2) at an elevation of 918 feet (280 m) above sea level. [2] [7] It is the third busiest of eight commercial airports in Wisconsin in terms of passengers served. [3]
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