Grand Prairie Municipal Airport

Coordinates: 32°41′56″N 097°02′49″W / 32.69889°N 97.04694°W

Grand Prairie Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KGPM – FAA LID: GPM
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Grand Prairie
Serves Grand Prairie, Texas
Elevation AMSL 588 ft / 179 m
Website www.GrandPrairieAirport.org
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 4,001 1,220 Concrete
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 98,001
Based aircraft 287
Sources: airport web site[1] and FAA[2]

Grand Prairie Municipal Airport (ICAO: KGPM, FAA LID: GPM) is a city-owned public-use airport located four miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Grand Prairie, a city largely in Dallas County, Texas, United States.[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Grand Prairie Municipal Airport is assigned GPM by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Grand Prairie Municipal Airport covers an area of 162 acres (66 ha) which contains one runway designated 17/35 with a 4,001 x 75 ft (1,220 x 23 m) concrete surface. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2007, the airport had 98,001 aircraft operations, an average of 268 per day: 99.8% general aviation and 0.2% military. There are 287 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 12% helicopter.[2] Airbus Helicopters Inc has its headquarters on the west side of the airport.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Grand Prairie Municipal Airport, official web site
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 FAA Airport Master Record for GPM (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
  3. ↑ KGPM - Grand Prairie Municipal Airport - Grand Prairie, Texas at Great Circle Mapper
  4. ↑ "Airbus Helicopters Inc website". Retrieved 31 October 2014.

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