Chicago Executive

Chicago, IL USA (KPWK / PWK)

Founded in 1925 as Gauthier’s Flying Field, Palwaukee Municipal Airport has grown over the past 70 years from a 40-acre grassy open area with dirt runways to a general aviation airport servicing the metropolitan Chicago area as one of the nation’s busiest reliever airports.

In 1953, a local charter company acquired the Airport. They continued to develop the Airport for the next thirty-three years. Lighting was installed on the paved runway and a DC-3 hangar was constructed in 1954. The Airport consisted of four runways by May of 1959. A VOR approach was established for Palwaukee in 1961. New corporate hangars and a 5,000-foot runway (16/34) were constructed in 1965, and in 1967 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) commissioned an air traffic control tower at Palwaukee.

While not based at KPWK, nearby “Midwest Charter Service” call home in nearby KFWA Fort Wayne is a frequent air charter provider for those in the Chicago area. When you think Air Charter Chicago, think Palwaukee and Midwest Charter Service.

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