Goldfield Airport
1A8 · Goldfield, Nevada · Esmeralda County · map
Goldfield Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile north of Goldfield, Nevada, 5,616 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 01/19, is 3,150 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1A8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 5,616 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- On the chart
- Las Vegas sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- June 2018
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 3,150 × 37 ft | Gravel, fair | |
| H1 | 100 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 01: hill 110 ft high 3,000 ft from the end
- Runway 19: right-hand traffic pattern, sign 5 ft high 185 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Goldfield from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Goldfield, Nevada: 1 piston single, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Nevada.
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
- Night operations discouraged; mts all quads.
- Ingress 170 degreess / egress 350 degreess. Tlof 100 feet an X 100 feet. Fato 100 feet an X 100 feet.
- 30 feet drop 200 feet from threshold left of centerline.
- White tires.
- White tires.
- Ruts on north side of runway.
- Gnd north of runway 19 threshold slopes down 10 feet with gulleys left and right; power lines east of runway.
- Ems helicopter adjacent to runway 01 threshold.
- Arrival uphill runway 19; departure downhill runway 01.
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.