Grand Forks International Airport

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Grand Forks International Airport
Aerial view of airport shortly after takeoff from runway 35L
IATA: GFK ICAO: KGFK FAA LID: GFK
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Grand Forks Regional Airport Authority
Location	Grand Forks, North Dakota
Elevation AMSL	845 ft / 258 m
Coordinates	47°56′57″N 097°10′34″W / 47.94917°N 97.17611°W / 47.94917; -97.17611
Website	GFKairport.com
Map
GFK Location of airport in North Dakota Show map of North Dakota GFK GFK (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 9L/27R 4,206 1,282 Concrete 17L/35R 3,901 1,189 Concrete 17R/35L 7,351 2,240 Asphalt 9R/27L 3,300 1,006 Concrete
Statistics (2022)
Aircraft operations 301,694 Based aircraft 143 Total passengers served 92,000 (2020)
Sources: Airport website,[1] Bureau of Transportation Statistics,[2] Federal Aviation Administration[3]

Grand Forks International Airport (IATA: GFK, ICAO: KGFK, FAA LID: GFK) is a public airport five miles (8 km) northwest of Grand Forks, in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States. GFK has no scheduled passenger flights out of the country but has an "international" title (like many other airports) because it has customs service for arrivals from Canada and other countries.

The airport, sometimes called Mark Andrews International Airport after Mark Andrews, a former U.S. House Representative and U.S. Senator from North Dakota, is owned by the Grand Forks Regional Airport Authority^[3] and located on U.S. Highway 2, around four miles (6 km) west of Interstate 29, within city limits in a detached section of the city that is surrounded by Rye Township.

In 2009 the airport's FAA control tower was the 23rd-busiest in the nation, with 346,165 tower operations.^[4] About 90% of all operations at GFK are flights operated by the University of North Dakota's John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, which is based on the field.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.^[5]