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Grand Forks International Airport

ICAO KGFK47.9493°N 97.1761°W845 ft / 258 mMedium airport
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Grand Forks International Airport (IATA: GFK, ICAO: KGFK) is a medium airport in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. It opened in 1928. It has 4 runways; the longest is 7,351 ft (2,241 m). In 2025 it handled 187 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1928–1928
1928
OpenedGrand Forks International Airport opens.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · 12 helipads · FAA diagram PDF
Byron L. Dorgan Terminal
17R/35L180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH7,351 ft2,241 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
09L/27R090° / 270° · LIT
LENGTH6,701 ft2,043 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEConcrete
17L/35R180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH3,901 ft1,189 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEConcrete
09R/27L090° / 270° · LIT
LENGTH3,300 ft1,006 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025
292K
291K
265K
236K
230K
237K
93K
139K
178K
187K
185K
187K
141516171819202122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GFK. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Grand Forks International Airport” (revision of 20 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers187K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,564of 3,974 · #344 North America · #229 USLongest runway7,351 ft2,241 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,204of 29,823 · =707 North America · =529 USElevation845 ft258 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=20,510of 43,341 · =9,494 North America · =7,758 USAgeOpened 19282026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=323of 15,079 · =58 North America · =57 USRunways41 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=41of 29,943 · =20 North America · =19 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
A/DAPP/DEP118.100
ATISATIS119.400
CTAFCTAF118.400
GNDGND124.575
RDORDO122.200
TWRGrand Forks Tower118.400
UNICUNICOM122.950