Galesburg Regional HW Timmons Airport
GBG · KGBG · Galesburg, Illinois · Knox County · map
Galesburg Regional HW Timmons Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Galesburg, 3 miles southwest of Galesburg, Illinois, 764 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 5,792 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 22 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 14,000 takeoffs and landings a year. About 167 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KGBG · observed 5:35 pm CDT (22:35 UTC), 21 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (200°) at 9 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 74°F (23°C), dew point 52°F (11°C)
- Altimeter 29.93 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KGBG 062235Z AUTO 20009KT 10SM CLR 23/11 A2993 RMK AO2 T02310111
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GBG · ICAO KGBG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Galesburg
- Elevation
- 764 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1957
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 5,792 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 3,600 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: ILS, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 18 ft high 1,007 ft from the end
- Runway 21: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 57 ft high 1,731 ft from the end
- Runway 28: tree 2 ft high 207 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Clearance delivery | 120.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 133.275 | |
| Gbg and aWOS-3 | 118.975 | |
| Burlington and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.6 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 309-343-3711.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 14,000, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Galesburg from the FAA register
26 aircraft are registered to owners in Galesburg, Illinois: 14 piston singles, 5 balloons, 4 turboprops, 3 business jets. 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 Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 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
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 03; runway end identifier lights runway 21; PAPI runway 21; high-intensity runway lights runway 03/21; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. Sunset to sunrise high-intensity runway lights runway 03/21; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service H24.
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.