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Sussex County Airport

38.68920°N
-75.35890°W
ARR / DAY
16
▼ 20.8%
DEP / DAY
16
▼ 14.9%

Sussex County Airport (KGED/GED) is a small general aviation airport located in Georgetown, DE, 79 mi south east of Baltimore. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 16 arrivals and 16 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KSBY, 25 mi away (KGED does not publish METAR)

30m ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KSBY 160154Z 00000KT 6SM BR CLR 23/22 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP214 T02280222

Runways

2 installed

5,500 FT MAX
04/22
5,500 ft × 150
ASP● LITMED
10/28
3,109 ft × 75
ASPH● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

22
58% of ops
501 land · 135 TO
04
21% of ops
184 land · 650 TO
28
14% of ops
119 land · 30 TO
10
6% of ops
55 land · 50 TO
Runway 22 carries 58% of operations (501 landings, 135 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 21%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

22 501 landings
UA 1%
04 184 landings
UA 3%
28 119 landings
UA 8%
10 55 landings
UA 7%
Approaches to 22 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 501 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
35.0
flights/day · 1,051 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 5pm · 2pm
Day vs night
77%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 35.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (38.0 vs 35.6 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

207 · 30%
59 · 8%
56 · 8%
46 · 7%
30 · 4%
29 · 4%
Activity is led by (30% of 697 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
APCH 132.425 —
APCH 257.875 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
ASOS 118.375 —
OTHER 125.550 —
APT REMA 125.550 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZDC
Mag var:
12° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Komatoast
9/2/2011
FBO
Good service; moderate fuel price
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