Sapelo Island Airport
08GA · Darien, Georgia · Mc Intosh County · map
Sapelo Island Airport is a private airport owned by Dept Natural Resources, 7 miles northeast of Darien, Georgia, 12 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 5,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 08GA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Dept Natural Resources
- Elevation
- 12 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1983
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 5,000 × 150 ft | Grass | Low-intensity lights |
Aircraft registered in Darien from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Darien, Georgia: 2 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- All operations conducted in VFR weather conditions. Landing area is ltd to pvt use.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.