Barwick Lafayette Airport
9A5 · Lafayette, Georgia · Walker County · map
Barwick Lafayette Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Lafayette, 1 mile south of Lafayette, Georgia, 776 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 4,999 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 36 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 7,750 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 9A5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Lafayette
- Elevation
- 776 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1954
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 4,999 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 02: threshold displaced 913 ft, 4,086 ft available for landing, trees 37 ft high 311 ft from the end
- Runway 20: threshold displaced 258 ft, 4,740 ft available for landing, building 32 ft high 620 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 125.1 | |
| 9A5 AWOS-3 | 119.775 | |
| Gadsden and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.5 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 706-639-1976.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 7,750, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Lafayette from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Lafayette, GA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Railroad TR parl west side of runway 150 feet from centerline.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 preset med intst. To incr intst and activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- Railroad TR as close as 184 feet right
- 0:1 at displaced thld - railroad TR 157 feet right.
- Deer and other wildlife on and in the vicinity of runway and airport.
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.