Georgetown Airport
E36 · Georgetown, California · El Dorado County · map
Georgetown Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of El Dorado, 2 miles northwest of Georgetown, California, 2,625 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,979 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA E36
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of El Dorado
- Elevation
- 2,625 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1962
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,979 × 62 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 190 ft, trees 45 ft high 465 ft from the end
- Runway 35: trees 30 ft high 365 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 |
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Aircraft registered in Georgetown from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Georgetown, California: 3 piston singles, 1 glider, 1 business jet. 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 California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Runway 17 poles at edge of tree line 145'-165' R are obstruction lighted.
- Activate PAPI runway 17; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 35 poles at the edge of tree line 145 feet L are obtstruction lighted.
- Trees 800 feet southwest of runway 17/35 2723 feet above sea level (100 feet above ground level) not lighted.
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.