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South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport

29.44480°N
-90.26110°W
ARR / DAY
2
▲ 0.0%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 200.0%

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 2 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago
Temp
82°F
Wind
3 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KGAO 150055Z AUTO 17003KT 10SM CLR 28/23 A3011 RMK AO2 T02810230

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

18
97% of ops
72 land · 5 TO
36
3% of ops
2 land · 37 TO
Runway 18 carries 97% of operations (72 landings, 5 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 3%.

Approach quality

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

18 72 landings
UA 1%
36 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 72 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
3.6
flights/day · 109 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 3pm · 5pm
Day vs night
72%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 3.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (3.8 vs 3.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

26 · 26%
14 · 14%
8 · 8%
7 · 7%
6 · 6%
6 · 6%
Activity is led by (26% of 99 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

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
shumphries
7/28/2021
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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