Robert Gray Army Airfield
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Robert Gray Army Airfield[1] (Template:Comma separated entries) is a military joint-use airport that operates alongside Killeen Regional Airport.[2] The airport is based inside the south end of the Fort Cavazos Military Reservation (West Fort Hood), six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southwest of the central business district of Killeen, Texas,[2] in unincorporated Bell County.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 232,299 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[3] 231,500 enplanements in 2009, and 243,861 in 2010.[4] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).[5]
History
The base was named after a Killeen native who was a pilot of a B-25 bomber on the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. He was killed later in World War II flying combat missions.[6]
Facilities and aircraft
The airport has one runway designated 15/33 with a PEM (Porous European Mix) surface measuring 10,000 by 200 feet (3,048 x 61 m). For the 12-month period ending April 10, 2010, the airport had 12,208 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 98.5% scheduled commercial and 1.5% general aviation.[2]
The base is also served by Yoakum–DeFrenn Army Heliport (Template:Comma separated entries) and two asphalt auxiliary landing strips used for training at North Fort Hood:
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See also
References
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- ↑ Fort Hood: The Great Place to Call Home, Fort Hood's Official Post Guide, Fort Hood History, page 72. Marcoa Publishing Inc., 2004, under contract with Fort Hood. Editorial content is edited, prepared and provided by the Public Affairs Office of Fort Hood.
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Other sources
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- Freeman, Paul (2008) Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Texas
- Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. Template:ISBN.
- Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. Template:ISBN.
- Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, Template:ISBN
External links
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- Robert Gray Army Airfield at GlobalSecurity.org
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". at Texas DOT Airport Directory
- Aerial image as of February 1995 Script error: No such module "webarchive". from USGS The National Map
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective Error: Invalid time.
- FAA Terminal Procedures for GRK, effective Error: Invalid time.
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for GRK
- AirNav airport information for KGRK
- ASN accident history for GRK
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
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