Granite Falls Municipal Airport Explained

Granite Falls Municipal Airport
Nativename:Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field
Icao:KGDB
Faa:GDB
Type:Public
Owner:City of Granite Falls
City-Served:Granite Falls, Minnesota
Elevation-F:1,047
Elevation-M:319
Coordinates:44.7533°N -95.5561°W
Website:GraniteFalls.com/...
Pushpin Map:USA Minnesota#USA
Pushpin Relief:yes
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Minnesota
Pushpin Label:GDB
Pushpin Label Position:right
R1-Number:15/33
R1-Length-F:4,350
R1-Length-M:1,326
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2006
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:7,000
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:15
Footnotes:Sources: Minnesota DOT,[1] FAA[2]

Granite Falls Municipal Airport, also known as Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field (or Lenzen-Roe-Fagen Memorial Field), is a public-use airport in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. It is owned by the City of Granite Falls and located four nautical miles (7 km) south of its central business district. The airport is situated near State Highway 23.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned GDB by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3]

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 152acres at an elevation of 1,047 feet (319 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,350 by 75 feet (1,326 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2006, the airport had 7,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 19 per day. At that time there were 15 aircraft based at this airport: 11 single-engine, 2 multi-engine and 2 jet.

See also

References

  1. Web site: Granite Falls Municipal Airport (Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field) . . Airport Directory . . 2008-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081207012843/http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/avoffice/ops/airdir/pdf/granitefalls.pdf . 2008-12-07 . dead .
  2. , effective 2009-07-02.
  3. Web site: KGDB - Granite Falls, Minnesota . Great Circle Mapper . 2009-08-08.

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