Coates Airport
79GA · Fort Gaines, Georgia · Clay County · map
Coates Airport is a private airport owned by Coates Flying Service INC, 7 miles south of Fort Gaines, Georgia, 310 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 1,700 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 79GA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Coates Flying Service INC
- Elevation
- 310 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1992
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 1,700 × 90 ft | Grass |
- Runway 17: plines on the approach
Aircraft registered in Fort Gaines from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Fort Gaines, GA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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 weather conditions; pvt use only.
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.