West Georgia Regional Airport

West Georgia Regional Airport

O. V. Gray Field
West Georgia Regional Airport; O. V. Gray Field
	IATA: none; ICAO: KCTJ; FAA LID: CTJ;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	West Georgia Airport Authority
Serves	Carrollton, Georgia
Elevation AMSL	1,161 ft / 354 m
Coordinates	33°37′54″N085°09′08″W / 33.63167°N 85.15222°W
Runways
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	24,500
Based aircraft	43
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Last updated December 08, 2023

West Georgia Regional Airport( ICAO : KCTJ, FAA LID : CTJ), also known as O. V. Gray Field, is a public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) northwest of the central business district of Carrollton, in Carroll County, Georgia, United States. It is owned by the West Georgia Airport Authority.^[1]

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 396 acres (160 ha ) at an elevation of 1,161 feet (354 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 17/35 which measures 5,503 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2008, the airport had 24,500 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 2% jet and 2% helicopter.^[1]

Incidents and Accidents

Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, which had left Atlanta International Airport for Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport suffered an engine failure and was en route to West Georgia Regional Airport when it crashed into a field, killing eight people and fatally wounding another.
On September 7, 2016, a Diamond DA20C1 and a Beech F33A collided midair at 10:56 am, killing all three people involved. One plane was privately owned and the other was from a flight school in the Carrollton area.^[3] Both of the planes crash landed a couple of yards away from end of the runway.

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References

1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for CTJ PDF , effective 2009-07-02.
↑ Great Circle Mapper: KCTJ - Carrollton, Georgia - West Georgia Regional Airport
↑ Harding, Vince Sims, Meghan Packer, Adam. "Mid-air collision at West Georgia Regional Airport leaves three dead" . Retrieved 2016-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

FAA Terminal Procedures for CTJ , effective November 30, 2023
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for CTJ
- AirNav airport information for CTJ
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for CTJ

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[FAA-1] 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for CTJ PDF , effective 2009-07-02.

[2] Great Circle Mapper: KCTJ - Carrollton, Georgia - West Georgia Regional Airport

[3] Harding, Vince Sims, Meghan Packer, Adam. "Mid-air collision at West Georgia Regional Airport leaves three dead" . Retrieved 2016-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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