| Green Bay's airport has an
observation area - just a rough gravel fenced parking lot open from dusk
to dawn - but there isn't much here to see. Most of the traffic is
American Eagle, Skyway, Air Wisconsin, and Northwest & Northwest Airlink.
Northwest is the only airline flying full-sized jets here, with the DC9
and an Airbus 319 providing service to Detroit and Minneapolis.
The lot is at the north end of runway 6/24, just off of Highway 172.
It is very difficult to photograph here in the winter simply because of
the sun angle - you are almost looking directly at the sun from this
parking lot during the winter months. Also, during the winter it
gets too dark to photograph after about 4:00pm and most of the planes in
the afternoon "push" arrive between 5 and 7pm.
What little traffic there is
is spread out throughout the day. During
football season, and especially during September and October when the
days are longer, you may even see some bigger planes like Northwest's
757 as they are the charter airline for the Green Bay Packers.
Other than that I'd have to give this airport a low rating because there
just isn't much to see for plane lovers here.
Interesting trivia: this airport was named for Lt. Col. Austin A.
Straubel of Green Bay, an Army Air Force bombing squad company commander
who was killed in action in February 1942 during World War 2.
Click here to see photos from the Observation Area
Back to the Airport ratings
|
