Butler Farm Show Airport
3G9 · Butler, Pennsylvania · Butler County · map
Butler Farm Show Airport is a public-use airport owned by Butler Farm Show, INC., 3 miles west of Butler, Pennsylvania, 1,333 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,580 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3G9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Butler Farm Show, INC.
- Elevation
- 1,333 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1950
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,580 × 38 ft | Asphalt, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 180 ft, pole 18 ft high 212 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 197 ft, trees 72 ft high 693 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights - the common traffic frequency. |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Butler from the FAA register
39 aircraft are registered to owners in Butler, Pennsylvania: 33 piston singles, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 business jets, 1 helicopter, 1 balloon. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- VFR operations only
- Dusk to 1000Z.
- +22 feet marked power line 292 feet from runway 18 thld on extdd centerline.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Lighted wind "T" dusk to dawn
- 24 hour fuel available with credit card.
- Single wheel capacity 9000 pounds.
- Runway closed to tgl. Displaced runway ends available for take off and roll out.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights 50 feet from runway.
- +9 feet road 149 feet from threshold 86 feet R; +5 feet fence 58 feet from thld 122 feet R; +11 feet wind tee and 16 feet light pole 67 feet from thld 110 feet L.
- +12 feet road 100 feet from thld on extdd centerline.
- Approach slope 21:1 to displaced thld to power line.
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.