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Mid Delta Regional Airport (KGLH), also known as Greenville Mid-Delta Airport, is a city-owned public airport serving Greenville in the Mississippi Delta, notable for its long dual runways inherited from its days as Greenville Air Force Base. It remains the only commercial airport in the Mississippi Delta, combining a subsidized regional airline service with a mix of general aviation, air taxi and military training traffic, making it a useful and well-equipped stop for a simulator pilot exploring the region.
Mid Delta Regional Airport lies in unincorporated Washington County, Mississippi, a few miles from the city of Greenville, which owns and operates the field. Formerly Greenville Air Force Base, it retains the long, heavy-duty runways of its military past and today combines subsidized commercial airline service with general aviation, air taxi and military training movements. For a sim pilot it offers a rare combination of a full ILS approach, a staffed control tower and abundant ramp space at what is otherwise a fairly quiet regional field.
The airport is a controlled airfield with its own control tower, situated in unincorporated Washington County, Mississippi. It is located roughly five nautical miles northeast of central Greenville according to official Federal Aviation Administration data, though the airport's own facilities description places it about three miles north of central Greenville; either way it sits just outside the city on flat Delta terrain. Overlying air traffic services in the region are provided by Memphis Center.
The airport has two parallel hard-surfaced runways. The primary runway, 18L/36R, is 8,007 feet long and lit, with an ILS approach available to runway 18L. The secondary parallel runway, 18R/36L, is 7,016 feet long and also lit, but without an ILS. Field elevation is 128 feet.
The tower callsign is Greenville Tower, operating on 119 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF. Ground movements are handled on 121.8 MHz, and UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. Field weather is broadcast on the ASOS at 125.525 MHz, and the overlying en-route facility is Memphis Center on 135.875 MHz. Runway 18L is equipped with an ILS for precision instrument approaches.
The airfield began life as Greenville Air Force Base before being converted to civilian use. Scheduled passenger service to Greenville dates back to the early 1950s, when Southern Airways flew Douglas DC-3s from the former Greenville Municipal Airport before shifting operations to Mid Delta Regional. By 1968 Southern was operating six daily Martin 4-0-4 departures, including nonstop flights to its Memphis hub and through-service to New Orleans, later upgrading to Douglas DC-9 jet service with nonstop and connecting flights to cities including Memphis, New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. Southern's merger with North Central Airlines formed Republic Airlines, which continued serving Greenville until withdrawing from the market by 1986. On 8 June 1988, a USAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Arkansas Air National Guard's 189th Tactical Airlift Group, on a training flight from Little Rock Air Force Base, crashed 1.5 miles from the airport during an approach, killing all six occupants. Northwest Airlink, operated by Express Airlines I, later provided code-sharing service from Alexandria, Memphis and Monroe under the Northwest Airlines brand. More recently, subsidized Essential Air Service has been provided successively by SeaPort Airlines, Boutique Air from 2015, and Contour Airlines from October 2021, the last operating Embraer ERJ-135 regional jets to Dallas/Fort Worth and Nashville.
The control tower at Mid Delta Regional is staffed from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a week. The airport handles a mix of traffic dominated by general aviation, with a significant military training component and a small amount of air taxi and scheduled commercial activity; around seven aircraft are based there, mostly single-engine types. Contour Airlines operates the airport's subsidized Essential Air Service flights. The field's two runways are linked by six taxiways, and ramp space is extensive, with a large concrete apron available for based and visiting aircraft.
