Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport satellite view

📍 Gainesville⬆ 1,276 ft2 runways

KGVL · GVL

Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport

34.27260°N

-83.83020°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 32.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 36.2%

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 5,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 25 arrivals and 23 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

6h ago

Temp

55°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KGVL 261055Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 13/11 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP172 T01330106 FZRANO $

Runways

2 installed

5,500 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

58% of ops

567 land · 145 TO

20% of ops

194 land · 70 TO

14% of ops

135 land · 247 TO

9% of ops

86 land · 10 TO

Runway 05 carries 58% of operations (567 landings, 145 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 11 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

05 567 landings

UA 2%GA 0.2%

11 194 landings

UA 15%

23 135 landings

UA 4%

29 86 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 05 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 567 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

57.9

flights/day · 1,737 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 6pm · 3pm

Day vs night

69%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 57.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (46.8 vs 64.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (43% of 1,180 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

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