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Grand Rapids Itasca Co-Gordon Newstrom field

47.21110°N
-93.50980°W
ARR / DAY
5
▲ 9.1%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 30.0%

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 5,755 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8d ago
Temp
54°F
Wind
5 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KGPZ 191156Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM OVC007 12/11 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP199 T01220111 10128 20122 56002

Runway intelligence

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

34
51% of ops
66 land · 3 TO
16
13% of ops
17 land · 92 TO
28
12% of ops
16 land · 1 TO
23
9% of ops
12 land · 2 TO
10
8% of ops
10 land · 5 TO
05
6% of ops
8 land · 2 TO
Runway 34 carries 51% of operations (66 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 13%.

Approach quality

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

34 66 landings
UA 6%
16 17 landings
UA 0%
28 16 landings
UA 6%
23 12 landings
UA 8%
10 10 landings
UA 10%
05 8 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 34 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 66 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
8.6
flights/day · 257 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 1pm · 9pm
Day vs night
54%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–9pm local, averaging 8.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (7.6 vs 9.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 226 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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