Bangor International Airport

Bangor International Airport  is a joint civil-military public airport on the west side of the city of Bangor, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Owned and operated by the City of Bangor, the airport has a single runway measuring . Formerly a military installation known as Dow Air Force Base, Bangor International Airport remains home to the 101st Air Refueling Wing of the Maine Air National Guard, although most of the Air Force's aircraft and personnel left in the late 1960s. BGR covers 2,079 acres (841 ha) of land.

The airport owes its prosperity to its location on major air corridors between Europe and the East Coast of the United States .

Bangor International is operated as an "enterprise fund", which means that the expense of operatingcrew . Between 1941 and 1971, there would be 14 additional fatal crashes of military aircraft based in Bangor, 3 within city limits and the rest in small towns or wilderness areas between the north woods and the coast.

Just before World War II, Godfrey Field was taken over by the Army Air Corps and became the Bangor Army Air Field . It was operated until 1968 as Dow Air Force Base , and still later as Bangor Air National Guard Base.

In 1948, Bangor was one stop on the round-the-world flight of Richarda Morrow-Tait, the first woman to pilot a plane around the globe . She landed at Dow but took off for the next leg (to Canada) from the airport in nearby Old Town . The Canadian authorities