| Georgetown Executive Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Georgetown | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Georgetown, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 790 ft / 241 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°40′43.71″N 097°40′45.78″W / 30.6788083°N 97.6793833°W / 30.6788083; -97.6793833 | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: Federal Aviation Administration | |||||||||||||||
Georgetown Executive Airport is in Williamson County, Texas, three miles north of Georgetown. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 categorized it as a reliever airport.
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is GTU to the FAA and has the IATA code QTG.
Facilities
The airport covers 640 acres (260 ha) at an elevation of 790 feet (241 m). It has two asphalt runways: 11/29 is 4,100 by 75 feet (1,250 x 23 m) and 18/36 is 5,000 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).
In the year ending December 31st, 2021, the airport had 120,900 aircraft operations, average 350 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. 320 aircraft were then based at the airport: 77% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 8% jet, 6% helicopters.
Incidents
On February 18, 2010 Andrew Joseph Stack flew a Piper Cherokee from Georgetown Municipal Airport into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. This suicide attack killed one IRS employee and Stack himself.
See also
References
- ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for GTU PDF, effective 2023-06-15.
- "ADIP (GTU) Georgetown Exec".
- "KGTU - Georgetown, Texas - Georgetown Executive Airport". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
External links
- Aerial photo as of 2 February 1995 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for GTU, effective November 28, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for GTU
- AirNav airport information for GTU
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for GTU