Grand Marais/Cook County Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Grand Marais/Cook County Airport


IATA = GRM
ICAO = KCKC
FAA = CKC
type = Public
owner = Cook County
operator =
city-served = Grand Marais, Minnesota
location =
elevation-f = 1,799
elevation-m = 548
coordinates = coord|47|50|18|N|090|22|59|W|region:US_type:airport_scale:10000
website = [http://www.boreal.org/airport/ www.boreal.org/airport/]
r1-number = 9/27
r1-length-f = 4,199
r1-length-m = 1,280
r1-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 2005
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 3,200
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=CKC|use=PU|own=PU|site=10713.4*A, effective 2008-04-10]

Grand Marais/Cook County Airport airport codes|GRM|KCKC|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. This airport replaced the former Devil's Track Municipal Airport (FAA: GRM) located on the shore of Devil's Track Lake, one mile (1.6 km) south of the current airport. [ [http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MN/Airfields_MN_N.htm#devilstrack Skyport Airport / Devil's Track Municipal Airport (GRM)] at Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields]

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 [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/GRM GRM / KCKC - Grand Marais/Cook County Airport - Grand Marais, Minnesota] at Great Circle Mapper] (which assigned CKC to Cherkasy, Ukraine [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/CKC CKC / UKKE - Cherkassy, Ukraine] at Great Circle Mapper] ).

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.

See also

* Grand Marais/Cook County Seaplane Base

References

External links

* [http://www.boreal.org/airport/ Grand Marais Cook County Airport & Seaplane Base]
*PDFlink| [http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/avoffice/ops/airdir/pdf/grandmarais.pdf Grand Marais-Cook County Airport (CKC)] |255 KiB at Minnesota DOT Airport Directory
*US-airport-ga|CKC|GRM
**FAA-procedures|CKC