South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport satellite view

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KGAO ·

South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport

29.44480°N

-90.26110°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 26.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 23.5%

South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport (KGAO) is a small general aviation airport located in Galliano, LA, 37 mi south of New Orleans. It features 1 runway measuring 6,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

22h ago

Temp

83°F

Wind

8 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGAO 122355Z AUTO 23008KT 10SM SCT028 29/22 A3009 RMK AO2 T02850220 10306 20276

Runways

1 installed

6,500 FT MAX

18/36

6,500 ft × 100

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

94% of ops

266 land · 38 TO

6% of ops

18 land · 51 TO

Runway 18 carries 94% of operations (266 landings, 38 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 6%.

Approach quality

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

18 266 landings

UA 3%

36 18 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 18 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 266 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

4.9

flights/day · 146 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 9pm · 2pm

Day vs night

65%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 4.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (3.9 vs 5.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

17 · 13%

10 · 8%

7 · 5%

Activity is led by (13% of 131 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
APCH	120.850	—
APCH	256.900	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	118.175	—
OTHER	120.850	—
CD/P	120.850	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Mag var:: 2° E
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

shumphries

07/28/2021

Elevation: ZERO!

Great airport with helpful service, chilled FBO, and cheap gas. But I came here for the selfie with the airport sign showing "Elevation: 0.0"!

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