Glendale Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use

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located west of the

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of Glendale, a city in

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, United States. It is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a

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''. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the FAA and

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, this airport is assigned GEU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA The airport's

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identifier is KGEU.

Facilities and aircraft

Glendale Regional Airport covers an area of at an

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of above

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. It has one

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: * 1/19 measuring

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For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 136,289 aircraft operations, an average of 373 per day: 98%

, 1.%

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, and 1%

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. At that time there were 220 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-

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, 11%

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, 8% multi-engine, 2% jet, and 1%

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City of Glendale - Airport

Glendale Municipal Airport (GEU)
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Facilities and aircraft

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