Granite Falls Muni/Lenzen-Roe-Fagen Memorial Field
GDB · KGDB · Granite Falls, Minnesota · Yellow Medicine County · map
Granite Falls Muni/Lenzen-Roe-Fagen Memorial Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Granite Falls, 4 miles south of Granite Falls, Minnesota, 1,048 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 4,357 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
Weather right now KGDB · observed 6:15 pm CDT (23:15 UTC), 16 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the northwest (320°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 80°F (26°C), dew point 36°F (2°C)
- Altimeter 29.80 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KGDB 062315Z AUTO 32005KT 10SM CLR 26/02 A2980 RMK AO2 T02640021
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GDB · ICAO KGDB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Granite Falls
- Elevation
- 1,048 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 4,357 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 33: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 642 ft, road 21 ft high 239 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Gdb and aWOS-3 | 120.1 | |
| Apt Remark 3 With Gco Freq | 121.725 | |
| Redwood Falls Center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.1 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 320-564-9388.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Granite Falls from the FAA register
43 aircraft are registered to owners in Granite Falls, Minnesota: 37 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 2 turboprops, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 preset on low intst; to incr intst, activate runway end identifier lights runway 15 and 33 and PAPI runway 15 and 33 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service fuel avail 24 hours with credit card.
- Noise sensitive area 1.5 MI in radius off north end of runway 15/33.
- Gco available on frequency 121.725 through minneapolis the air route traffic control center and princeton Flight Service.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.