North Texas Regional Airport

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For usage of airport before 1971, see Perrin Air Force Base.
North Texas Regional Airport
Perrin Field
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IATA: PNX – ICAO: KGYI – FAA LID: GYI
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Grayson County, Texas
Serves Sherman / Denison
Elevation AMSL 749 ft / 228 m
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Map
KGYI is located in Texas
KGYI
KGYI
Location in Texas
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 2,277 694 Asphalt
17L/35R 9,000 2,743 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 53,300
Based aircraft 169
Source: FAA[1] and airport website[2]

North Texas Regional Airport / Perrin Field[2] (IATA: PNX, ICAO: KGYI, FAA LID: GYI) is a county owned airport in Grayson County, Texas between Sherman and Denison.[1] Formerly Grayson County Airport, the airport was renamed in November 2007.[2] Several buildings are occupied by businesses, Grayson County government agencies, and Grayson County College.

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is GYI to the FAA and PNX to the IATA (which assigned GYI to Gisenyi Airport in Gisenyi, Rwanda).

As a reliever airport, unconfirmed reports suggest that the airport might (in the distant future) be a third airport for the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex If this occurs, airline traffic would be focused on regional jets. The northern extension of State Highway 289 passes the airport on the west side.

History

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For usage of airport before 1971, see Perrin Air Force Base.

The airport is on the site of Perrin Air Force Base, which was built in 1941 and closed in 1971.[3] Since the closure, a group of local citizens have held the memory of Perrin together, hosting nine Perrin Field reunions since the early 1980s. The Perrin AFB Research Foundation was established in 1998. Today, in addition to serving as a general aviation airport, several businesses, as well as a juvenile detention center/boot-camp and adult probation center are built upon former barracks and nearby areas. There is a small museum dedicated to the former Perrin Air Force Base at the airport and Grayson County College uses several buildings. The college also operates the former base golf course.

After seeing the fighters take off from here as a young man, aviation expert Chesley Sullenberger (best known as the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549) became interested in flying.[4][5]

Facilities

The airport covers 1,410 acres (570 ha) at an elevation of 749 feet (228 m). It has two runways: 17L/35R is 9,000 by 150 feet (2,743 x 46 m) asphalt/concrete; 13/31 is 2,277 by 60 feet (694 x 18 m) asphalt.[1]

It had three runways, but one 8,000'(2,438m) runway is now a taxiway. The airport has a Category I instrument landing system (ILS) to Runway 17L. The former USAF control tower resumed operations in mid-2008.

In the year ending April 30, 2007 the airport had 53,300 aircraft operations, average 146 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% military and <1% air taxi. 169 aircraft were then based at the airport: 73% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 11% jet, 4% helicopter and 1% ultralight.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 FAA Airport Master Record for GYI (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 North Texas Regional Airport, official site
  3. ↑ North Texas Regional Airport: History
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  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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