The Grayling Army AirfieldThe Grayling Army Air Field (GAAF) is located just north of the City of Grayling, Mich., and has been operational since the early days (1942) of Camp Grayling. The airfield is military-owned and covers 880 acres of state and federal property. The airfield consists of two (2) 5,000 feet runways plus interconnecting taxiways, with the normal complement of Navigational Aids (i.e. NDB, VOR, AWOS, PAPI, MIRL and RIEL) on both runways. The airfield is C-130 and C-17 capable. Facilities include seventy helicopter tie-down pads, a control tower with an attached rappelling tower, a Flight Operations Center, Aircraft Crash Rescue station, an aircraft storage facility, three (3) new 80-man troop barracks, and a new dining facility. There is also a railhead with a balloon spur and loading ramp on the west side of the airfield. A Memorandum of Agreement with the Michigan Department of Aeronautics allows civilian aircraft to land at this airfield through a Fixed Base Operations just north of the current Flight Operations Center.
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