Gatesville Municipal Airport is a public

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located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Gatesville, a city in Coryell County,

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airport is owned by the City of Gatesville. It was formerly known as City-County Airport, at which time it was co-owned by Coryell County. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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and IATA, Gatesville Municipal Airport is assigned GOP (formerly 05F) by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned GOP to

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Facilities and aircraft

Gatesville Municipal Airport covers an area of which contains one

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, 17/35, measuring 3,400 x 60 ft (1,036 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending February 19, 2003, the airport had 4,200 aircraft operations, 100% of which were

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