Camp McGovern

44°51'17"N 018°45'15"E

Camp McGovern AHP Heliport (also known as Brcko aerodrome, ICAO: LQMG) is a former US Army heliport 110 kilometers north of Sarajevo.
Camp McGovern was a farm co-operative before the Bosnian war. About a kilometer to its southeast, across the Brca River, it had a small asphalt runway for agricultural aircraft.
American peace troops arrived here in a cold wintery January 1996. The first unit to arrive was the 3/5 Cavalry. The first engineers to arrive with them was B Coy of the 23rd Engineers, who built Camp McGovern. The camp’s name is in remembrance of 1Lt. McGovern who was killed on 30 January 1951 while leading his platoon up the slope of a bunker-type pill-house in Kamzangjan, Korea. The action earned him the Medal of Honour. by the late 1990s the camp housed some 900 American soldiers.
The heliport was built to support a medevac unit at the camp, operating UH-60 Blackhawk medevac helicopters.




Camp McGovern in 2003, about a year before the military installation was closed. Note the small agricultural airstrip that existed off the camp, to the southeast (Google Earth).

In 2004, after dismantling Camp McGovern, SFOR/NATO handed over control of the heliport to the Brčko authorities. A few years later, the agricultural airstrip was extensively overhauled and improved. As it is not possible to find any information on the airstrip and as it is connected to the heliport by only a few hundred meters of road, the airstrip is included in this section.


Camp McGovern was almost completely dismantled by the time this photo was taken in 2006 (Google Earth)


Sometime between March 2006 and september 2011 (when this photo was taken), the agricultural strip was rebuilt and lengthened (Google Earth).


In July 2012 the outlines of a turning table on the north side of the runway had become visible (Google Earth).


The situation in 2013 (Google Earth).