# Dawson Community Airport (GDV / KGDV)

**Dawson Community Airport** (IATA: GDV, ICAO: KGDV) is a medium airport in Glendive, Montana, United States. It opened in 1970. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,704 ft (1,739 m). In 2025 it handled 4 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kgdv

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: GDV / KGDV
- FAA: GDV
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Glendive, Montana, United States
- Opened: 1970
- Elevation: 2,458 ft / 749 m
- Coordinates: 47.1377, -104.8069
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 5,704 ft / 1,739 m
- Instrument procedures: 2 approaches
- Passengers: 4,016 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-7/-6 · America/Denver
- Website: http://www.glendiveairport.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Community_Airport (6 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1709052
- Weather station: KGDV
- Ident: KGDV

## Timeline

- 1970: Dawson Community Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12/30 | 5,704 ft / 1,739 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 136° / 316° | yes |
| 02/20 | 3,002 ft / 915 m | 60 ft / 18 m | Asphalt | 036° / 216° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/06078AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 4,588 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 5,289 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 4,387 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 5,388 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 4,959 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 3,048 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 4,162 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 8,523 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 4,213 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 4,143 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 4,016 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [BIL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbil.md) Billings Logan International Airport · United States · 200 mi / 322 km · Cape Air

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from GDV, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 9K [Cape Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/cape-air) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 4K (2025) | #2,977 of 3,974 | #783 in North America | #566 in US |
| Longest runway | 5,704 ft / 1,739 m | =5,122 of 29,858 | =1,522 in North America | =1,197 in US |
| Elevation | 2,458 ft / 749 m | #7,080 of 43,403 | #3,308 in North America | #2,544 in US |
| Age | Opened 1970 | =6,186 of 15,079 | =4,428 in North America | =4,338 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 135.075 |
| RDO | GREAT FALLS RDO | 122.550 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [SDY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ksdy.md) Sidney - Richland Regional Airport · 49 mi / 78 km
- [MLS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmls.md) Miles City Airport - Frank Wiley Field · 71 mi / 114 km
- [OLF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kolf.md) L M Clayton Airport · 75 mi / 121 km
- [XWA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kxwa.md) Williston Basin International Airport · 92 mi / 148 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Dawson Community Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dawson_Community_Airport&oldid=1364482058), revision of 16 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kgdv/data