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East Texas Regional Airport (KGGG) is a county-owned public airport in Gregg County, Texas, about nine miles south of Longview near the community of Lakeport. It combines scheduled airline service to Dallas/Fort Worth with a substantial general aviation, flight-training and military presence, and is home to LeTourneau University's School of Aeronautical Science.
East Texas Regional Airport, identified as KGGG (IATA GGG), is a county-owned, public-use airport in Gregg County, Texas, serving Longview, Kilgore and the surrounding East Texas region. It supports a mixed traffic pattern of general aviation, flight training, military training and limited airline service, and is the base for LeTourneau University's School of Aeronautical Science, whose fleet ranges from Cessna 172s to Citabrias and Piper PA-44 Seminoles. For a simulator pilot the field offers a long ILS-equipped runway alongside a shorter crosswind runway, a control tower, and a genuinely busy and varied traffic mix, making it an interesting stop for both airliner and general-aviation flying.
The airport lies in an unincorporated part of Gregg County, just south of the community of Lakeport and about nine nautical miles south of downtown Longview. It is served by Longview approach/departure control on 118.25 MHz and has its own operating tower, indicating that the field sits within controlled airspace during tower hours.
East Texas Regional has two hard-surfaced, lit physical runways. Runway 13/31 is the primary strip, with an ILS on runway 13; the database records a landing length of 9,178 ft for runway 13 and 9,994 ft for runway 31, the difference reflecting a displaced threshold on the runway 13 end. Runway 18/36 is the secondary hard-surfaced, lit runway at 6,114 ft. Field elevation is 358 ft, with the airport reference point at 32.384 N, 94.7115 W.
Longview approach/departure is available on 118.25 MHz. The airport broadcasts ATIS on 119.65 MHz. The tower and common traffic advisory frequency both use 119.2 MHz, with ground control on 121.6 MHz and UNICOM on 122.95 MHz. Runway 13 is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches. LeTourneau University's training aircraft, mostly with tail numbers ending in L or LU, operate under the callsign "Jacket" (JKA), which pilots should expect to hear frequently in the local traffic mix.
The airport, originally built as Gregg County Airport, opened on 15 July 1947, with Mid-Continent and Delta Air Lines providing early commercial service from its terminal. Over the following decades it gained runway and approach lighting and an instrument landing system. A major expansion came in 1970 with completion of the 10,000 ft paved runway 13/31, followed in 1976 by construction of a new air traffic control tower. The airport was renamed East Texas Regional Airport in 2002. In 2007 it received a 6.5 million dollar Airport Improvement Program grant funding resurfacing of runway 13/31, relocation of the ILS glideslope and MALSR, and the creation of an 800 ft displaced threshold on runway 13 to meet FAA runway safety area standards; a former taxiway identified as a runway-incursion hot spot was also removed, with the work completed in 2009. On 8 October 1992 the airport served as the first stop for Space Shuttle Atlantis during its ferry flight between the Kennedy Space Center and Palmdale, California.
East Texas Regional today handles a diverse traffic mix of primary flight training, air carrier, military and general aviation movements, and hosts several flight schools, most notably LeTourneau University's School of Aeronautical Science, which accounts for a large share of local operations. American Eagle operates scheduled flights to Dallas/Fort Worth. Two fixed-base operators, Stebbins Aviation and Jet Center, are based on the field. The airport also hosts the Great Texas Balloon Race, a volunteer-run event held annually each summer.
