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Scholes International at Galveston Airport (KGLS) sits on the Texas Gulf coast a few miles southwest of Galveston city, offering GA and business pilots a towered field with two hard-surfaced runways and an ILS approach. Its combination of customs handling, instrument approaches and Houston-area radar coverage makes it a practical waypoint for pilots flying the upper Texas coast.
Scholes International at Galveston Airport is a publicly used, medium-sized airport on the Texas Gulf coast serving the city of Galveston. It offers an instrument landing system, a control tower and customs handling, giving simulator pilots a realistic towered-field destination with both VFR and IFR options in the Houston area.
The airport lies at coordinates 29.2653N, 94.8604W at a field elevation of 3 feet, about three nautical miles southwest of the city of Galveston, Texas, on the Gulf coast (skyvector.com). Traffic in the vicinity is worked by Houston Approach/Departure, and the field itself has its own control tower, placing arriving and departing traffic under positive control close to the ground.
Scholes International has two physical runways. Runway 14/32 is 5,998 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving runway 14. Runway 18/36 is 5,977 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit, but without an instrument landing system.
The tower and CTAF frequency is 120.575 MHz. Ground control operates on 118.625 MHz and Clearance Delivery on 135.35 MHz. ASOS weather is broadcast on 119.275 MHz. Houston Approach/Departure works arriving and departing traffic on 134.45 MHz, and a Montgomery County radio outlet is available on 122.15 MHz for flight service contact. UNICOM is on 123.05 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 14, supporting instrument approaches to the field.
Scholes International operates as a public-use airport with an active control tower and customs and landing-rights handling, reflecting its role as a gateway field for general and business aviation on the Galveston coast. The runway 14 ILS and tower service allow operations in a range of weather conditions.
