Peterson Field
4GA5 · Plains, Georgia · Sumter County · map
Peterson Field is a private airport, 3 miles northeast of Plains, Georgia, 526 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,255 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4GA5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 526 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,255 × 230 ft | Grass, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: trees 25 ft high 192 ft from the end
- Runway 36: road 13 ft high 39 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Approach and departure | 125.5 | |
| Macon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 123.95 | |
| Macon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.5 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Also here
- flight instruction
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Jimmy Carter Regional (9 nm east), Dawson Municipal (21 nm south), Crisp County-Cordele (31 nm east), Southwest Georgia Regional (34 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Jimmy Carter Regional (9 nm east), Marion County (13 nm northwest), Dawson Municipal (21 nm south), Butler Municipal (29 nm north).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Georgia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Runway 18/36 south 1080' unlighted
- Thld marked by yellow tires.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Plains from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Plains, Georgia: 5 piston singles, 4 piston twins. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Georgia.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Plains, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Americus Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Americus, 11 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Plains 9 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 4 piston twins
- Petecraft Aviation Services INC 8 aircraft in town
- Petecraft Aviation Services INC 8 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Americus Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Georgia 2,135 since 1982 · 360 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Georgia 105 landing places
- Georgia 8,800 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/4GA5.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.