Glacier Park International Airport
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FAA airport diagram
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Flathead Municipal Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Kalispell, Montana | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,977 ft / 907 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°18′38″N 114°15′22″W / 48.31056°N 114.25611°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.IFlyGlacier.com | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations | 51,925 |
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| Based aircraft | 159 |
| Passengers (2011) | 355,928 |
Glacier Park International Airport (IATA: FCA, ICAO: KGPI, FAA LID: GPI) is in Flathead County, Montana, six miles northeast of Kalispell. The airport is owned and operated by the Flathead Municipal Airport Authority, a public agency created by the county in 1974.
The airport's ICAO code was KFCA, and most airlines still use that code for reservations purposes. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Glacier Park International Airport is GPI to the FAA and FCA to the IATA (which assigned GPI to Guapi Airport in Colombia.)
The airport was built in 1942 as Flathead County Airport, from which its IATA and original FAA and ICAO codes were derived. Airline flights operated by Northwest Airlines began in 1950; however, passenger traffic was sparse for years. In 1970 the airport was designated as an international airport and received its current name. In the 1970s and 1980s passenger traffic increased as Hughes Airwest (previously Air West), Western Airlines, Delta Air Lines (which acquired Western), the original Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) and Horizon Air offered new jet service. Jetliners operated into the airport in the past include the Boeing 727-200, Boeing 737-200, Boeing 757-200, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 and Fokker F28. The 757 operated by Delta is the largest aircraft ever to have provided scheduled passenger service at the airport.
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