{{Short description|Airport in Grayson County, Texas, United States}} {{For|the previous military use of this facility before 1971|Perrin Air Force Station}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox airport | name = North Texas Regional Airport | nativename = Perrin Field | image = North Texas Regional Airport - Texas.jpg | image-width = 250 | caption = [[USGS]] 1999 [[orthophoto]] | IATA = PNX <!--not GYI--> | ICAO = KGYI | FAA = GYI | type = Public | owner = [[Grayson County, Texas]] | operator = | city-served = [[Sherman, Texas|Sherman]] / [[Denison, Texas|Denison]] | location = <!--if different than above--> | elevation-f = 749 | website = | coordinates = {{coord|33|42|51|N|096|40|25|W|region:US-TX_scale:10000|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map = USA Texas | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Texas | pushpin_label = '''PNX'''/KGYI/'''GYI''' | pushpin_label_position = bottom | r1-number = 13/31 | r1-length-f = 2,277 | r1-surface = [[Asphalt concrete|Asphalt]] | r2-number = 17L/35R | r2-length-f = 9,000 | r2-surface = Asphalt | r3-number = 17R/35L | r3-length-f = 4,008 | r3-surface = Asphalt | stat-year = 2007 | stat1-header = Aircraft operations | stat1-data = 53,300 | stat2-header = Based aircraft | stat2-data = 169 | footnotes = Source: [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]]<ref name="FAA">{{FAA-airport|ID=GYI|use=PU|own=PU|site=24780.*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 2, 2009.</ref> and airport website<ref name="Airport">[http://www.northtexasregionalairport.com/ North Texas Regional Airport], official site</ref> }}

'''North Texas Regional Airport''' / '''Perrin Field'''<ref name="Airport" /> {{airport codes|PNX|KGYI|GYI}} is a county-owned [[airport]] in [[Grayson County, Texas]] between [[Sherman, Texas|Sherman]] and [[Denison, Texas|Denison]].<ref name="FAA" /> Formerly Grayson County Airport, the airport was renamed in November 2007.<ref name="Airport" /> Several buildings are occupied by businesses, Grayson County government agencies, and [[Grayson County College]].

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter [[location identifier]] for the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] and [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]], North Texas Regional Airport is assigned '''GYI''' by the FAA and '''PNX''' by the IATA (which assigned '''GYI''' to [[Gisenyi Airport]] in [[Gisenyi]], [[Rwanda]]).

The airport entrance is at the intersection of [[Farm to Market Road 691]] and [[Farm to Market Road 1417]] on the east side, while the northern extension of [[Texas State Highway 289|State Highway 289]] passes the airport on the west side.

== History == [[File:North Texas Regional Airport.jpg|thumb|left|135px|Front entrance sign at the North Texas Regional Airport]]

{{For|usage of airport before 1971|Perrin Air Force Base}} The airport is on the site of '''Perrin Air Force Base''', which was built in 1941 and closed in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.northtexasregionalairport.com/content/?page=18 |title=North Texas Regional Airport: History |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714195438/http://www.northtexasregionalairport.com/content/?page=18 |archive-date=2011-07-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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. The [[Perrin Air Force Base Historical Museum]] is located 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.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news|last=Rivera|first=Ray|title=A Pilot Becomes a Hero Years in the Making|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 16, 2009|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/nyregion/17pilot.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp|postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref><ref name="aarp">{{cite web|last=Kaufmann|first=Carol|title=Hudson River Hero|work=AARP Today|publisher=American Association of Retired Persons|date=January 16, 2009|url=http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/gettingaround/articles/hudson_river_hero.html|accessdate=March 16, 2009}}</ref>

On 1 January 2024, the [[Cavanaugh Flight Museum]] lost its lease at [[Addison Airport]], closed indefinitely, and announced that its aircraft would be moved to North Texas Regional, but the museum would not state whether the collection would return to public display.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Cole |date=January 1, 2024 |title=Historic Addison flight museum announces closure |url=https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/addison-texas-cavanaugh-flight-museum-closing/287-85fe72cf-3131-4919-88ed-e92d8cfa30c0 |work=WFAA |location=Dallas, Texas |access-date=January 4, 2024}}</ref>

== Facilities==

The airport covers {{convert|1,410|acre|ha|lk=on}} at an [[elevation]] of 749 feet (228 m). It has three [[runway]]s: 17L/35R, which measures 9,000 by 150 feet (2,743 x 46 m) and is made from asphalt/concrete; 17R/35L, which measures 4,008 by 100 feet (1,222 x 30 m) and is also made from asphalt/concrete, and 13/31, which measures 2,277 by 60 feet (694 x 18 m) and is made from asphalt.<ref name="FAA" />

The airport has a Category I [[instrument landing system]] (ILS) to Runway 17L. The former USAF control tower resumed operations in mid-2008.

In the year ending April 30, 2007, the airport had 53,300 aircraft operations, an average of 146 per day: 98% [[general aviation]], 2% military and <1% [[air taxi]]. 169 aircraft were then based at the airport: 73% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 11% jet, 4% [[helicopter]] and 1% [[ultralight]].<ref name="FAA" />

==See also== * [[List of airports in Texas]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.perrinfield.org/ Perrin Field Historical Society and Museum] * [http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/avn/airport_directory/gyi.pdf Sherman/Denison, North Texas Rgnl / Perrin Field (GYI)] at [[Texas DOT]] Airport Directory * {{FAA-procedures|GYI}}

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