Geary A Bates/Jefferson County Airpark
2G2 · Steubenville, Ohio · Jefferson County · map
Geary A Bates/Jefferson County Airpark is a public-use airport owned by Jefferson CO Commissioners, 4 miles west of Steubenville, Ohio, 1,198 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 5,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive) and about 34 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 10,425 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 2G2
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Jefferson CO Commissioners
- Elevation
- 1,198 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 5,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 32: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 70 ft high 1,514 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.75 | |
| 2G2 AWOS-3 | 121.625 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 740-275-4862.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 10,425, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Steubenville from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Steubenville, Ohio: 3 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 Ohio.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estabd bfr 1959.
- Occasional deer, birds, and otr wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 14 and 32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 32 operates continuously.
- Prior permission required for transient hngr storage.
- Unatndd major holidays.
- 100LL and jet a available H24 via credit card.
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.