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Grand Rapids Itasca Co-Gordon Newstrom field

47.21110°N
-93.50980°W
ARR / DAY
1
50.0%
DEP / DAY
2
60.0%

Grand Rapids Itasca Co-Gordon Newstrom field (KGPZ/GPZ) is a small general aviation airport located in Grand Rapids, MN, 155 mi north of Minneapolis. It features 3 runways with the longest being 5,756 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

15h ago
Temp
77°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KGPZ 022356Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 25/13 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP135 T02500128 10267 20233 56002

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

28
56% of ops
32 land · 0 TO
34
40% of ops
23 land · 3 TO
23
4% of ops
2 land · 1 TO
16
0% of ops
0 land · 32 TO
05
0% of ops
0 land · 4 TO
10
0% of ops
0 land · 20 TO
Runway 28 carries 56% of operations (32 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 40%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

28 32 landings
UA 0%
34 23 landings
UA 0%
23 2 landings
UA 0%
16 0 landings
UA 0%
05 0 landings
UA 0%
10 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 28 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 32 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
2.9
flights/day · 88 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 1pm · 9pm
Day vs night
50%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–9pm local, averaging 2.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (3.0 vs 3.0 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (43% of 88 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 118.425
OTHER 122.400
GRAND RA 122.400
OTHER 127.900
DULUTH R 127.900
OTHER 281.450
DULUTH R 281.450
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
2° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 14:58 UTC