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Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport

34.27260°N
-83.83020°W
ARR / DAY
27
▼ 2.6%
DEP / DAY
26
▼ 20.3%

Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport (KGVL/GVL) is a small general aviation airport located in Gainesville, GA, 34 mi north west of Athens. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,496 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 27 arrivals and 26 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

Latest METAR observation

8m ago
Temp
90°F
Wind
8 kts
340°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KGVL 011755Z AUTO 34008KT 10SM CLR 32/20 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP192 T03170200 10328 20233 58015 FZRANO $

Runways

2 installed

5,496 FT MAX
05/23
5,496 ft × 100
ASPH-G○ unlitHIGH
11/29
4,003 ft × 100
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

05
52% of ops
424 land · 82 TO
11
23% of ops
187 land · 44 TO
23
14% of ops
110 land · 338 TO
29
11% of ops
93 land · 17 TO
Runway 05 carries 52% of operations (424 landings, 82 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 11 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

05 424 landings
UA 2%
11 187 landings
UA 10%
23 110 landings
UA 5%
29 93 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 05 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 424 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
52.3
flights/day · 1,569 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 3pm · 4pm
Day vs night
74%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 52.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (56.4 vs 53.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

468 · 43%
90 · 8%
88 · 8%
49 · 4%
38 · 3%
34 · 3%
Activity is led by (43% of 1,093 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.075 —
APCH 132.475 —
APCH 291.100 —
UNICOM 123.075 —
ASOS 126.475 —
OTHER 122.500 —
GAINESVI 122.500 —
OTHER 127.500 —
ATHENS R 127.500 —
OTHER 316.050 —
ATHENS R 316.050 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
3° W
Fuel:
100LL, A+

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
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