Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport
GKT · KGKT · Sevierville, Tennessee · Sevier County · map
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport is a public-use airport owned by Sevier County, 2 miles southeast of Sevierville, Tennessee, 1,014 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 5,506 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GKT · ICAO KGKT
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Sevier County
- Elevation
- 1,014 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- November to February, every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm; March to October, every day, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1964
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 5,506 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 55 ft high 1,070 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 350 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 132.8 | |
| Gkt and aWOS-3 | 126.875 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 865-429-5401.
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 Sevierville from the FAA register
66 aircraft are registered to owners in Sevierville, Tennessee: 43 piston singles, 12 helicopters, 5 business jets, 3 piston twins, 2 turboprops. 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 Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 4 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 on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 10 and 28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 10 and 28 operates continuously. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28; preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Paew northwest side.
- Approach ratio 26:1 to dthr.
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.