DR C P Savage SR Airport
53A · Montezuma, Georgia · Macon County · map
DR C P Savage SR Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Montezuma, 1 mile east of Montezuma, Georgia, 345 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 5,003 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 53A
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Montezuma
- Elevation
- 345 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1962
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 5,003 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 783 ft, trees 48 ft high 728 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, pole 48 ft high 1,064 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.2 | |
| Macon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.5 |
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Aircraft registered in Montezuma from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Montezuma, Georgia: 2 drones, 1 piston single. 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 Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 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
- Activate PAPI runway 18 and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24:1 to displaced threshold
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.