Grand Prairie Municipal Airport is five miles southwest of Grand Prairie, a city largely in Dallas County, Texas. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

FAA The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the largest transportation agency of the U.S. government and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the country as well as over surrounding international waters. Its powers include air traffic m ...

and IATA, but Grand Prairie Municipal Airport is GPM to the FAA and has no IATA code.

Facilities

The airport covers ; its single runway, 17/35, is 4,001 x 75 ft (1,220 x 23 m) long. In the year ending May 31, 2007 the airport had 98,001 aircraft operations, average 268 per day: 99.8%

general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...

and 0.2% military. 287 aircraft are based at the airport: 82% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 12%

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

. Airbus Helicopters Inc has its headquarters on the west side of the airport.

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* Airports in Texas Transportation in Tarrant County, Texas Buildings and structures in Tarrant County, Texas {{Texas-airport-stub