College Park Airport
CGS · KCGS · College Park, Maryland · Prince Georges County · map
College Park Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southeast of College Park, Maryland, 49 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,980 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CGS · ICAO KCGS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 49 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 2,980 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 564 ft, 2,176 ft available for landing, trees 32 ft high 322 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, two lights on the right, threshold displaced 171 ft, 2,675 ft available for landing, trees 64 ft high 1,086 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.975 | |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 124.7 | |
| Approach and departure DC frz | 125.65 | |
| Cgs and aWOS-3 | 121.225 | |
| Irons and star | 126.4 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 301-864-5497.
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Aircraft registered in College Park from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in College Park, Maryland: 6 piston singles, 4 helicopters. 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 Maryland.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 3 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.
- No takeoffs 10:00 pm to 7:00 am; landing only.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 15 and 33; PAPI runway 15 and 33; medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 - the common traffic frequency.
- The Maryland national capital Park and planning cmsn.
- +33 feet railroad, 117 from threshold with obs lts.
- +15 feet fence 87 feet R at threshold; -6 feet ditch 65 feet L at threshold.
- Approach slope at CL 20:1 from displaced threshold and centerline.
- Aer 15 heavy smoke and firefighting training operations intermittently in progress.
- No student tgl or solo operations permitted.
- Deer and other wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Compliance with 14CFR section 93.335 is required before pilots may operate to/from this airport.
- Transient parking: first 4 hours free; fee aft, waived west/minimum fuel purchase; overnight fee.
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.