International Peace Garden Airport

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The airfield International Peace Garden (FAA LID: S28) is the northernmost airport in the U.S. state of North Dakota.

The airport is located east of the International Peace Garden on the border between the United States and Canada. A dispatch from General Aviation aircraft with up to 15 passengers, both by the Canadian and also take the American Border Patrol, both entertain the regular border crossing on U.S. Highway 281/Manitoba Highway 10

The airport covers 49 acres and has a start and runway. Except for some parking positions are no facilities available, pilots must also reckon with deer on the airstrip.

Role in World War II

In the first years of World War II, the airfield had a special role. During the intensive German submarine activity in the North Atlantic Roosevelt's Lend-Lease Act allowed on 11 March 1941, the much needed laying of the Lockheed Hudsons and Lockheed Venturas of the California factories to the Canadian border, to serve as a reinforcement of the Canadian coastal protection. However, the pilots of the Air Transport Command Service could not fly in Canada, so they landed on the border runways before the Canadian border. In a subsequent night and fog action helped voluntary farmers further from the adjacent Canadian Manitoba. They moved the aircraft with teams of horses across the border, where they were taken over by the Royal Canadian Air Force for coastal defense on the north Atlantic coast the next morning. The International Peace Garden Airfield became the transportation center for aircraft that should be used in the North Atlantic.