Battle Creek's Air National Guard Base is getting a new mission, but not the one that local leaders had hoped for. Battle Creek Enquirer reporter Jennifer Bowman spoke with WMUK's Gordon Evans Friday morning.
A new mission has been ordered up for the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base. The 110th Airlift Wing learned today that it will fly drone aircraft - the MQ-9 Reaper - from the base at W.K. Kellogg Airport, said Col. Ronald Wilson, base commander.
BATTLE CREEK, MI - If the planned closure of the W.K. Kellogg's air traffic control tower in Battle Creek goes ahead in April, it won't ground the 38 planes of Western Michigan University's College of Aviation.
