Wood County Airport (FAA LID: 1G0) is a county-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Bowling Green, in Wood County, Ohio, United States on the campus of Bowling Green State University.[1][2] It is owned by the Wood County Airport Authority[1] and is also known as Wood County Regional Airport (WCRA).[3] As per the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is classified as a general aviation airport.[4]

Wood County Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: 1G0
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Wood County Airport Authority
Serves	Bowling Green, Ohio
Elevation AMSL	673 ft / 205 m
Coordinates	41°23′28″N 083°37′48″W
Website	WoodCountyAirport.us
Map
1G0 Location of airport in Ohio/United States Show map of Ohio 1G0 1G0 (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 10/28 4,199 1,280 Asphalt 18/36 2,628 801 Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 27,405 Based aircraft 47
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

History

Bricker Field

The airport was established in 1939, and purchased by Bowling Green State University in 1942 for use in the V-12 Navy College Training Program.[5][6] On its acquisition it was named Bricker field after Ohio governor John W. Bricker.[7][8] After the war, traffic at the airport decreased well below capacity.[9] A Lockheed T-33 was added as a Gate guardian between 1965 and 1967.[10] Bricker Field was transferred from the university to the local government in 1970.[11]

Accidents and Incidents

• A Stearman Biplane crashed in a nearby farm during an attempted emergency landing on July 31st 1946 at 6:35PM, killing its pilot.[12]
• A Vultee BT-13 Valiant crashed during landing at 3:30PM on September 23rd, 1950, killing its pilot. The pilot was from Custar and not a student.[13]
• A Cherokee 140 crashed into Frazee Apartments a half mile from the airport on May 1st 1982 at 10:40AM. 4 on board the plane were killed, but there were no ground fatalities.[14] In the immediate aftermath, the crash was attributed to the plane being overloaded for a flight bound for Columbus.[15] The victims included the pilot, who was a BGSU junior, two people from Napoleon, Ohio, and a student of Northwest State Community College.[16]
• In 1993 a pilot noticed a plane on the runway during his landing, aborting his landing to instead crash in a nearby field, avoiding serious injury, though damaging the plane seriously in the process.[17]
• The roof of a hangar was destroyed by a storm in July 2003. Several planes were damaged.[18]
• $60,000 was stolen from the airport between May 2007 and March 2008.[19]
• The right landing gear of a Piper PA-28R-201 collapsed while taxiing after landing on September 13th, 2016 at 8:40AM. The aircraft was damaged, but its two occupants were uninjured.[20]
• An MD-369[21] helicopter performing power line inspection for FirstEnergy crashed at 11:36AM on January 15th, 2018, 78 minutes after takeoff, causing the deaths of the powerline inspector and the pilot. The cause of the crash was identified as a loss of engine power at a low altitude with winter weather being a factor.[22]

Facilities and aircraft

Wood County Airport covers an area of 118 acres (48 ha) at an elevation of 673 feet (205 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 10/28 is 4,199 by 75 feet (1,280 x 23 m) and 18/36 is 2,628 by 50 feet (801 x 15 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending February 23, 2007, the airport had 27,405 aircraft operations, an average of 75 per day: 98.5% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 0.5% military. At that time there were 47 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 9% multi-engine and 4% helicopter.[1]

The university fleet at this airport consisted of 19 aircraft in 2019, all either single or multi engine propeller aircraft.[23]

The airport has an AWOS IIIP/T in operation.[24]

The Bowling Green Flight Center is a 16,800 square foot aviation education facility at airport run as part of the Bowling Green State University aviation program.[25] It was opened on April 27th, 2015.[26]

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  The Bowling Green Flight Center at the Airport.
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  A full flight simulator in the Flight Center.
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  The Gate guardian of the airport.

References

External links

• Wood County Regional Airport
• Aerial photo as of 22 March 1994 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for 1G0, effective October 6, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for 1G0
  • AirNav airport information for 1G0
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for 1G0