Grand Marais/Cook County Airport

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Grand Marais/Cook County Airport
IATA: GRM – ICAO: KCKC – FAA: CKC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Cook County
Serves		Grand Marais, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL		1,799 ft / 548 m
Coordinates		47°50′18″N 090°22′59″W / 47.83833, -90.38306
Website		www.boreal.org/airport/
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	4,199	1,280	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			3,200
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Grand Marais/Cook County Airport (IATA: GRM, ICAO: KCKC, FAA LID: CKC) is a county-owned, public-use airport located seven nautical miles (13 km) northwest of the central business district of Grand Marais, a city in Cook County, Minnesota, United States.^[1] This airport replaced the former Devil's Track Municipal Airport (FAA: GRM) located on the shore of Devil's Track Lake, one mile south of the current airport.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Grand Marais/Cook County Airport is assigned CKC by the FAA and GRM by the IATA^[3] (which assigned CKC to Cherkasy, Ukraine^[4]).

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Grand Marais/Cook County Airport covers an area of 220 acres (89 ha) at an elevation of 1,799 feet (548 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 9/27 with a 4,199 x 75 ft. (1,280 x 23 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2005, the airport had 3,200 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 267 per month.^[1]