Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport is a public use
airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the
central business district
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of
Bedford, a city in
Lawrence County,
Indiana,
United States.
The airport is named in honor of
Virgil I. Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer, pilot in the United States Air Force, and member of the Mercury Seven selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) as Project Mercur ...
(1926-1967), an Indiana native and
U.S. Air Force pilot who was one of the original
NASA Project Mercury astronaut
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s.
Facilities and aircraft
Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport covers an area of at an
elevation of 728 feet (222 m) above
mean sea level. It has two
asphalt paved
runways: 13/31 is 4,501 by 100 feet (1,372 x 30 m) and 6/24 is 3,089 by 70 feet (942 x 21 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 30, 2007, the airport had 5,110 aircraft operations, an average of 14 per day: 93%
general aviation, 4%
air taxi and 3%
military. At that time there were 35 aircraft based at this airport: 97% single-
engine and 3% multi-engine.
See also
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Grissom Aeroplex
Grissom Aeroplex is a public/military airport in Miami County, Indiana, Miami and Cass County, Indiana, Cass counties, near Peru, Indiana. The airport is also located north of the city of Kokomo, Indiana, Kokomo. It is the civil redevelopment o ...
– public/military airport in
Miami and
Cass counties, near
Peru, Indiana
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List of airports in Indiana
This is a list of airports in Indiana (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports tha ...
References
External links
Aerial photofrom
Indiana Department of Transportation
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Airports in Indiana
Transportation buildings and structures in Lawrence County, Indiana