Gowanda Airport
D59 · Gowanda, New York · Erie County · map
Gowanda Airport is a public-use airport owned by Dan Gernatt Gravel Prod.Inc., 3 miles north of Gowanda, New York, 830 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,430 feet of grass. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA D59
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Dan Gernatt Gravel Prod.Inc.
- Elevation
- 830 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,430 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 09: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 80 ft high 700 ft from the end
- Runway 27: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,132 ft, other 83 ft high 190 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Gowanda from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Gowanda, New York: 2 balloons, 1 piston twin, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in New York.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR operations only.
- Truck traffic in the vicinity of runway 27.
- Dthr unmkd.
- Approach slp 15:1 to dthr; ovr 83 feet conveyor dirt pile, 1322 feet dstc, 69 feet right.
- Ctlng obstruction conveyor dirt pile.
- Runway 09: 40 feet power line, 600-800 feet dstc, air carriers approach.
- Runway 09/27: soft MAR-JUN and when wet.
- Runway 9/27: dirt road an X runway approximately midpt.
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.