Gladwin Zettel Memorial
GDW · KGDW · Gladwin, Michigan · Gladwin County · map
Gladwin Zettel Memorial is a public-use airport owned by the City/Co of Gladwin, 1 mile southeast of Gladwin, Michigan, 774 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 4,699 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GDW · ICAO KGDW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City/Co of Gladwin
- Elevation
- 774 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,699 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 15/33 | 2,580 × 150 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 34 ft high 856 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 33: tree 9 ft high 93 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.45 | |
| Gdw and aWOS-3PT | 118.975 | |
| Freeland and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.7 |
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Aircraft registered in Gladwin from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Gladwin, Michigan: 7 piston singles, 2 drones, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 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
- Deer and large birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 09 and 27; PAPI runway 09 and 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- City hall.
- 100LL available H24 self service via credit card. Jet a+ available full service durg bus hours or by arngmt.
- Closed when snow covd except for ski equipped aircraft.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- Drone (UAS) operates west of runway 15/33.
- Terminal building aces: 5-3-2-1-*.
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.