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Airport information for Great Falls Airport Country: United States Location: Great Falls Coordinates: 47.28.54N / 111.22.12W IATA Code: GTF Timezone: GMT -7 Direct flights form Great Falls Airport Direct flights to Great Falls Airport Find connecting flights to Great Falls Airport Find connecting flights from Great Falls Airport

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Great Falls International Airport (IATA: GTF, ICAO: KGTF) is a joint civil-military public airport turn up 3 land mile (five kilometre) southwestward of the town of Great Falls in Cascade County, Montana, USA. GTF assists the Great Falls area , as good as other communities throughout central Montana.

On final go up for Runway three at GTF International Airport.

Great Falls International Airport is also place to Great Falls Air National Guard Base and the Montana Air National Guard's 120th Fighter Wing (120 FW), the "Vigilantes." An Air National Guard unit opeationally-gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC). The 120 FW now wings the F-16 Fighting Falcon, but is transitioning to the F-15 Eagle get down in late 2008.

Malmstrom Air Force Base , place of the 341st Missile Wing (341 MW), is turn up ten land mile east of GTF, on the east side of Great Falls. Malmstrom's 12,000 human foot landing track is now closed and open only to armed forces eggbeaters. As a effect, Great Falls ANGB supplies back up for transient fixed-wing armed forces aircraft seeing Malmstrom AFB.

History

Great Falls International Airport was started in November 1928 coming after a recommendation from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The airport was rent by the U.S. War Department during World War II and went a place for the seventh Ferrying Command of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the conflict. It rested under authority command until 1948, by which point it had turned by 740 acres.

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