In May 1987, a Joint Resolution of the County of Grand Forks and the City of Grand Forks authorized a resolution for what is now GFK. Under the auspices of the Grand Forks International Regional Airport Authority, GFK grew into one of the busiest airports in the region.

Today, based on daily operations, the airport is one of the top 50 busiest airports in the United States. With the addition of the University of North Dakota Aerospace program, GFK has a traffic total of almost 40,000 flights per month, according to the FAA.

May 10, 2007:  Past airport manager Norman Midboe, employed by the Grand Forks airport from 1942-1984, very diligently collected newspaper articles about the airport during the years he managed the airport.   Recently, he very generously lent them out to us so we could have them scanned in order to make them available to the public.  The kind folks at the Chester Fritz Library in Grand Forks scanned them for us and we now have them available for your viewing.  Please click the links below .  

Note the large size of the files - use patience to load.

1959-1968.pdf (37 mb)

1968-1984.pdf (60 mb)