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Grand Rapids Itasca Co-Gordon Newstrom field

47.21110°N
-93.50980°W
ARR / DAY
5
▲ 18.8%
DEP / DAY
5
▲ 6.1%

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 5,755 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KHIB, 34 mi away (KGPZ does not publish METAR)

56m ago
Temp
53°F
Wind
5 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KHIB 221553Z AUTO 13005KT 10SM CLR 12/07 A3025 RMK AO2 SLP254 T01170072

Runway intelligence

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

34
57% of ops
103 land · 2 TO
16
16% of ops
29 land · 102 TO
23
8% of ops
14 land · 4 TO
28
8% of ops
14 land · 3 TO
10
7% of ops
12 land · 0 TO
05
4% of ops
8 land · 0 TO
Runway 34 carries 57% of operations (103 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

34 103 landings
UA 4%
16 29 landings
UA 0%
23 14 landings
UA 7%
28 14 landings
UA 0%
10 12 landings
UA 0%
05 8 landings
UA 12%
Approaches to 34 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 103 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
11.0
flights/day · 330 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 1pm · 6pm
Day vs night
56%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–6pm local, averaging 11.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (10.8 vs 11.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 294 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

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