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Grand Junction Regional Airport (IATA: GJT[3], ICAO: KGJT, FAA LID: GJT) is a northeastern Grand Junction Airport in Mesa County, Colorado. 2 ] It is the Grand Junction Regional Airport Authority[2], the biggest airport in the west of Colorado and the third biggest in the state, behind Denver International Airport and Colorado Springs Airport.
In 1946-47 the first aircraft in Grand Junction were Monarch Douglas DC-3, the predecessor of Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) was in service until the 1980s. The United Airlines Douglas DC-4 Propliner has been operating LAX-LAS-GJT-DEN since 1947 and United carried on this service until 1977. Grand Junction's non-stop routes never went beyond Denver, Salt Lake and Las Vegas until United only launched non-stop routes to Los Angeles on Saturday in the 1969-70 hibernation period and Chicago in 1970-71 (GJT's track was lengthened from 5,400 to 7,500Ó. in 1965).
Up until the 1980', GJT was the only airport in Colorado to see aircraft just to the West of Denver. From 1974-75 United Douglas DC-8 planes made non-stop flights to Los Angeles and Chicago, while Boeing 727-100s went to San Francisco; from 1976-77 United tried non-stop 727s to Detroit and Milwaukee and from 1978-79 to Omaha and Kansas City.
The United Boeing 727-200 also ran from the airport. Grand Junction eventually got United Boeing 737-200 non-stop to LAX in the 1980-81 season, but a few month later United stopped all long-haul traffic to GJT. Frontier Boeing 727-100 with DEN-GJT-SLC were the first aircraft in Grand Junction and back from October-November 1966.
Several Frontier 727s also offered air connections to and from Kansas City and St. Louis. The Boeing 737-200s later superseded Frontier 727s, and their Convair 580 turboprop were preserved until the 1980'. From 1975-76 Frontier launched only 737 DFW aircraft at the weekends during the year. Further Grand Junction aircraft were Continental airliners to Denver in the 80s and early 90s with Boeing 727-100, 727-200 and 737-200 as well as Douglas DC-9-10 and DC-9-30 in the years when Continental was operating a hub in Denver, Western airliners Boeing 737-200 in the 1975-76 winters non-stop to SFO and America West airliners Boeing 737-200 in the 80s non-stop to Phoenix.
Air 21 flown non-stop to Colorado Springs and Las Vegas and directly to Los Angeles with Fokker F28 Fellowshipwindjets. Grand Junction's only mainliners are now Allegiant Air McDonnell Douglas MD-80s and Airbus A319s on Thursdays and Sundays non-stop to Las Vegas and Los Angeles; all other carriers use RJ.
FAA airport master record for GJT (Form 5010 PDF). IATA Airport Code Search (GJT: Grand Junction / Walker Field)". A national plan for integrated airport systems. Walker Field becomes the Grand Junction Regional Airport. Mayor wants Walker Field to keep his name."
The Grand Junction Free Press. Ressources for this airport: