Thief River Falls Regional Airport

ICAO KTVF48.0657°N 96.1850°W1,119 ft / 341 mMedium airport

Thief River Falls Regional Airport (IATA: TVF, ICAO: KTVF) is a medium airport in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States. It opened in Jul 1945. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,504 ft (1,982 m). In 2025 it handled 16 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1945–1945

JUL 1945

OpenedThief River Falls Regional Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

13/31135° / 315° · LIT

LENGTH6,504 ft1,982 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

04/22039° / 219° · LIT

LENGTH4,997 ft1,523 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

11K

10K

14K

17K

16K

17K

16K

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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round1

MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Denver Air Connection421 km262 mi

Cargo4

FARHector International AirportUnited States · Alpine Air Express, DHL Express, Freight Runners Express +1136 km85 mi MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · DHL Express, FedEx Express421 km262 mi SDFLouisville Muhammad Ali International AirportUnited States · United Parcel Service1,387 km862 mi MEMFrederick W. Smith International AirportUnited States · FedEx Express1,536 km954 mi

Most destinationsFedEx Express 3DHL Express 2Denver Air Connection 1Alpine Air Express 1Freight Runners Express 1United Parcel Service 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from TVF. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Thief River Falls Regional Airport” (revision of 15 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers16K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,514of 3,974 · #596 North America · #412 US Longest runway6,504 ft1,982 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#4,055of 29,823 · #992 North America · #751 US Elevation1,119 ft341 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=15,987of 43,341 · =7,014 North America · =5,540 US AgeOpened 19452026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,524of 15,079 · =1,492 North America · =1,440 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 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

4 channels

AWOSAWOS 3108.400

CNTRMINNEAPOLIS CNTR132.150

RDOPRINCETON RDO108.400

UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800