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K49A ·

Gilmer County Airport

34.62790°N

-84.52490°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 81.8%

DEP / DAY

▲ 72.2%

Gilmer County Airport (K49A) is a small general aviation airport located in Ellijay, GA, 49 mi north of Sandy Springs. It features 1 runway measuring 3,507 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1d ago

Temp

75°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K49A 290215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW042 FEW050 24/22 A3009 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

3,507 FT MAX

03/21

3,507 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

66% of ops

38 land · 15 TO

34% of ops

20 land · 18 TO

Runway 03 carries 66% of operations (38 landings, 15 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 21 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

03 38 landings

UA 0%

21 20 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 03 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 38 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

4.8

flights/day · 144 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 4.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (3.9 vs 5.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (16% of 125 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	118.075	—
MOUNT OG	133.100	—
OTHER	133.100	—
MOUNT OG	342.425	—
OTHER	342.425	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 5° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

moski

08/02/2012

Nice facility

FBO building is well equipped and only a few years old. Runways are both sloped down toward the middle so let the runout just happen.

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