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Brunswick Golden Isles Airport (KBQK) is a county-owned public-use field five nautical miles north of downtown Brunswick, Georgia, built on the site of the former Naval Air Station Glynco airship base. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped runway that once supported Navy blimps and now handles general aviation traffic alongside a daily Delta Connection service to Atlanta.
Brunswick Golden Isles Airport is a county-owned public airport serving Brunswick, Georgia, and the surrounding Golden Isles coastal region. Originally built as Naval Air Station Glynco, a base for lighter-than-air airships, it retains an unusually long single runway inherited from its military past. Today it is predominantly a general aviation field, with limited scheduled airline service, making it a straightforward and interesting VFR or IFR destination for visiting pilots owing to its history and generous runway length.
The airport lies about five nautical miles north of the central business district of Brunswick, in Glynn County, Georgia, close to the barrier islands of St Simons Island, Sea Island and Jekyll Island. Jacksonville Center provides en-route and clearance delivery services in the area on 126.75 MHz, and Macon Radio is available on 122.2 MHz for flight service.
The airport has one physical runway, 07/25, a hard-surfaced strip 7,990 feet long that is lit and served by an ILS on runway 07.
Automated weather is broadcast on AWOS 124.175 MHz. Clearance delivery and Jacksonville Center operate on 126.75 MHz, and Macon Radio can be reached on 122.2 MHz. The field uses UNICOM as its CTAF on 122.8 MHz for local traffic advisories. Runway 07 is equipped with an ILS approach.
The airfield began life in August 1942 as Naval Air Station Glynco, built by the U.S. Navy on 2,400 acres in northern Glynn County as a base for lighter-than-air airships, or blimps. After the Navy's training wing was decommissioned, a group of community leaders formed the Glynco Steering Committee, and in 1975 the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers chose the former base for a consolidated training academy, while the community retained the airfield and its long runway, which became the official county municipal airport that year. Delta Air Lines flew DC-9s from the field in the early 1970s, and from 1981 Atlantic Southeast Airlines began nonstop service to Atlanta, later operating as a Delta Connection carrier. On 5 April 1991, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 crashed on approach to runway 7 with the loss of all 20 passengers and 3 crew. The airport was renamed from Glynco Jetport to Brunswick Golden Isles Airport in 2003, and it has hosted air shows over the years, most recently Wings over the Golden Isles in March 2017.
The airport is used predominantly for general aviation, which accounted for the large majority of aircraft movements in recent years, alongside a small proportion of air taxi, scheduled commercial and military activity. Around two dozen light aircraft are based there. Delta Connection, operated by Endeavor Air and SkyWest using Bombardier CRJ regional jets, provides scheduled service to Atlanta.
