Golden Triangle Regional Airport covers an area of 1,000 acres (405 ha) at an elevation of 264 feet (80 m) above mean sea level. In December of the same year, the three local cities approved bond issues to pay $1,285,000 for the airport, with the remaining 45% of the project to be paid for by the Federal government. Plans to build the airport at a cost of $2.2 million dollars were announced by Senator John C. Stark Aerospace is the newly formed subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries. In addition, two aerospace companies, Aurora Flight Sciences and Stark Aerospace, built facilities on airport property and primarily manufacture unmanned aerial vehicles. The area has two ' Megasites' adjacent to the airport that were certified under the Tennessee Valley Authority's Certified Megasite program.

Other industry, many with international roots, continues to locate at the industrial park adjacent to the airport. Paccar, parent company of Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAF (Dutch) trucks has operated a truck engine manufacturing facility since late 2010 that is located to the north of the airport.

Severstal North America opened a steel mini-mill in an adjacent site in October 2007 and immediately began construction on phase II, bringing total investment in the plant to $1.8 billion. Army UH-72A Lakota light utility twin engine helicopter. In 2007, American Eurocopter finished the second phase of the project, a 220,000-square-foot (20,000 m 2) facility built primarily to manufacture and assemble the new U.S. American Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters), a subsidiary of EADS North America, moved into an 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m 2) helicopter production plant built by the airport and leased to the company on airport property in 2004. GTR is the nucleus of a new industrial complex in northeast Mississippi. It is the third-busiest commercial airport in the state of Mississippi. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). GTR is used for general and military aviation, and charter aircraft.Īs per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 35,669 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 36,275 enplanements in 2009, and 36,329 in 2010. The airport is located approximately midway between the cities of Starkville, Columbus, and West Point, Mississippi, and serves the surrounding Golden Triangle region of Mississippi and parts of West Alabama.

Golden Triangle Regional Airport ( IATA: GTR, ICAO: KGTR, FAA LID: GTR) is a public use airport in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

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