# Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTR)

> Columbus/W Point/Starkville, US · IATA: GTR · ICAO: KGTR · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `GTR` |
| ICAO | `KGTR` |
| City | Columbus/W Point/Starkville |
| Country | US |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 80 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 33.45030, -88.59140 |

## Description

An 8,003-foot runway (2,440 m) and a 2,500-acre aerospace and industrial park side by side define Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTR, ICAO KGTR) in Lowndes County, Mississippi, midway between Columbus, Starkville and West Point. PACCAR builds diesel engines here, Steel Dynamics runs a steel mill, Aurora Flight Sciences and Stark Aerospace produce composite and unmanned-aircraft parts, and Airbus Helicopters assembles the UH-72 Lakota nearby. Scheduled passenger service is limited to regional feeder flights to a major US connecting airport, principally Dallas/Fort Worth; regular freighter services are not confirmed, although the airport markets air cargo access. In practice the plants ship by truck and rail, supported by a FedEx Ground facility next door and barge traffic on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Time-critical air freight is tendered about two hours north at Memphis (MEM), home of the FedEx world hub and Foreign-Trade Zone 77, with Birmingham (BHM) and Atlanta (ATL) as alternatives. The runway length keeps charter and project freighters a realistic option for oversized aerospace and industrial consignments.

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