East Texas Regional Airport (IATA: GGG, ICAO: KGGG, FAA LID: GGG) is an airport located in Gregg County, Texas. The airport is just South of the city of Lakeport, and is 9 mi (7. 8 nmi; 14 km) south of Longview. Its IATA identifier GGG comes from its prior name, Gregg County Airport. The airport is used for general aviation and military training; it has scheduled flights to Dallas/Fort Worth on American Airlines/American Eagle. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 24,835 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 24,944 in 2009 and 21,830 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011 2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). East Texas Regional is home to LeTourneau University’s School of Aeronautical Science. LeTourneau constitutes a very large portion of the airport’s traffic and has a fleet of airplanes ranging from Cessna 172s to Citabrias and Diamond DA-42 Twinstars. Most LeTourneau aircraft have tail numbers ending in ‘LU’. All use the call sign ‘Jacket’ (three letter- JKA). Each summer the airport hosts the Great Texas Balloon Race, a volunteer-run weekend event held annually since 1980.
| Official Website: | http://www.flyggg.com/ |
| Wikipedia link: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Texas_Regional_Airport |
| Airnav link: | http://airnav.com/airport/KGGG |
| Contact Number: | +1 903-643-3031 |
| Airport Address: | 269 Terminal Cir, Longview, TX 75603, United States |