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North Texas Regional Airport / Perrin Field〔 is a county owned airport in Grayson County, Texas between Sherman and Denison.〔 Formerly Grayson County Airport, the airport was renamed in November 2007.〔 Several buildings are occupied by businesses, Grayson County government agencies, and Grayson County College. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is GYI to the FAA and PNX to the IATA (which assigned GYI to Gisenyi Airport in Gisenyi, Rwanda). As a reliever airport, unconfirmed reports suggest that the airport might (in the distant future) be a third airport for the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex If this occurs, airline traffic would be focused on regional jets. The northern extension of State Highway 289 passes the airport on the west side. == History == The airport is on the site of Perrin Air Force Base, which was built in 1941 and closed in 1971.〔(North Texas Regional Airport: History )〕 Since the closure, a group of local citizens have held the memory of Perrin together, hosting nine Perrin Field reunions since the early 1980s. The Perrin AFB Research Foundation was established in 1998. Today, in addition to serving as a general aviation airport, several businesses, as well as a juvenile detention center/boot-camp and adult probation center are built upon former barracks and nearby areas. There is a small museum dedicated to the former Perrin Air Force Base at the airport and Grayson County College uses several buildings. The college also operates the former base golf course. After seeing the fighters take off from here as a young man, aviation expert Chesley Sullenberger (best known as the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549) became interested in flying. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Texas Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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