Gum Creek Airport
8GA1 · Roopville, Georgia · Heard County · map
Gum Creek Airport is a private airport, 3 miles southwest of Roopville, Georgia, 1,070 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 2,350 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8GA1
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,070 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1980
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 2,350 × 65 ft | Grass | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 24: threshold displaced 350 ft, trees 30 ft high 300 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Roopville from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Roopville, Georgia: 1 piston single, 1 drone. 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 Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- All operations are conducted in VFR weather conditions; landing area is limited to pvt use.
- Only 1900 feet of runway has low-intensity runway lights.
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.