Terrell Municipal Airport

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Terrell Municipal Airport
IATA: TRL - ICAO: KTRL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of Terrell, Texas
Elevation AMSL		474 ft (144.5 m)
Coordinates		32°42′33.04″N, 096°16′02.609″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
17/35	5,006	1,526	Asphalt
14/32	3,014	919	Asphalt

Terrell Municipal Airport (IATA: TRL, ICAO: KTRL) is a public access airport located 1 mile SE of Terrell, Texas.

The airport has services for commercial and private aviation. Aircraft operations, including local general aviation, transient general aviation, and air taxi, average 70 per day. The Airport Industrial Park is adjacent to the field.

It is owned and operated by the city of Terrell, Texas.

Contents 1 History 2 See Also 3 References 4 External Links

[edit] History

The airport was opened in April 1941 as Terrell Field and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.

[edit] See Also

• Texas World War II Army Airfields

[edit] References

• AirNav.Com - Terrell Municipal Airport (KTRL)
• Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

[edit] External Links

• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KTRL
  • ASN accident history for TRL
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KTRL
  • FAA current TRL delay information