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Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport (KGFL) is a county-owned general aviation field at Queensbury, New York, three nautical miles northeast of Glens Falls and close to Lake George and the southern Adirondacks. It offers a full-length ILS-equipped runway and a busy mix of flight training, medevac, law-enforcement and recreational flying, making it a useful and well-equipped VFR and IFR destination for visiting pilots.
Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport is a public-use, county-owned airport serving Glens Falls, Queensbury and the wider Lake George and southern Adirondack region of upstate New York. It is named in honour of the polar aviator Floyd Bennett and today supports general aviation, flight training, air ambulance and government flying alongside recreational traffic, making it a practical and interesting stop for a simulator pilot exploring the Adirondacks.
The airport lies in the town of Queensbury, about three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Glens Falls, in Warren County, New York. It sits within range of Albany Approach/Departure, which provides radar service to traffic in the area, and is well placed for pilots routing toward Lake George and the southern Adirondack Park to the west, with Vermont a short distance to the east.
The field has two paved runways. Runway 01/19 is 5,003 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and equipped with an ILS on runway 01. Runway 12/30 is around 3,958 to 3,959 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit, but without an instrument landing system. Field elevation is 322 feet.
Albany Approach/Departure works arriving and departing traffic on 125 MHz. The airport's automated weather is broadcast on ASOS at 119.25 MHz. Burlington Radio provides remote flight service communications on 122.2 MHz, and CTAF/UNICOM traffic advisories are handled on 123 MHz. Runway 01 is served by an ILS, and GPS-based instrument approaches are available to all four runway ends.
Floyd Bennett is a non-towered airport, with pilots using the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 123 MHz for traffic advisories and self-announced circuit calls. Instrument arrivals can expect handling from Albany Approach/Departure on 125 MHz before joining for the ILS on runway 01 or one of the GPS approaches serving the other runway ends.
The airport lies close to Lake George and the southern Adirondack Park, both useful for orientation on a VFR approach, with Glens Falls itself a few miles to the southwest. Pilot Knob Mountain, north of the field near the extended centreline of runway 19, is a notable high terrain feature to be aware of when manoeuvring in the vicinity.
The county's original airport, also called Floyd Bennett Field, operated from 1918 to 1946 on what is now the site of Queensbury High School. Ground was broken on the present site, a few miles to the east, in 1941, and the field was known for many years as Warren County Airport before being renamed and dedicated to Floyd Bennett on 25 October 1998. Over the decades it has hosted scheduled services from Colonial Airlines, Eastern Air Lines, Mohawk Airlines, Allegheny Airlines and Air North. The airport's history includes the loss of Mohawk Airlines Flight 411, which crashed into Pilot Knob Mountain on 19 November 1969 while approaching from Albany, with the loss of all 14 aboard, along with several smaller general aviation accidents recorded over the years.
Floyd Bennett Memorial today supports a wide range of general aviation activity, including flight training, aerial photography and scenic tour operators such as Leaf Air, and volunteer pilots flying for the Angel Flight programme. The airport also hosts the New York State Police Aviation Unit, search and rescue and MEDEVAC operations, Department of Environmental Conservation missions, Army National Guard aviation, and aerial fire control work. It is the annual host of the Adirondack Balloon Festival each September, and is reported to operate around the clock except during that event. A full-service FBO is based on the field.
