Gainesville Municipal
GLE · KGLE · Gainesville, Texas · Cooke County · map
Gainesville Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Gainesville, 3 miles west of Gainesville, Texas, 846 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 6,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 91 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The FAA counts about 24,300 takeoffs and landings a year.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Gainesville Municipal?
Its FAA code is GLE, and its ICAO code is KGLE.
Where is Gainesville Municipal?
It is 3 miles west of Gainesville, Texas, 846 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at Gainesville Municipal?
The longest of its 2 runways, 18/36, is 6,000 feet long.
Does Gainesville Municipal have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Gainesville Municipal?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive.
Where can you fly nonstop from Gainesville Municipal?
Airline flights go to 1 airport, the busiest of them Nashville. Every route
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Gainesville Municipal?
21 pilot examiners and 22 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Gainesville Municipal…
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.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GLE · ICAO KGLE
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Gainesville
- Elevation
- 846 feet above sea level
- 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 and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive; the services card below
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 4,307 × 75 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the right, trees 45 ft high 1,325 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 35 ft high 1,555 ft from the end
- Runway 13: trees 70 ft high 1,900 ft from the end
- Runway 31: trees 22 ft high 650 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Gle and aWOS-3PT | 118.375 | |
| Gainesville and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.75 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 940-612-3549.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- crop spraying, flight instruction, aircraft rental
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: North Texas Rgnl/Perrin Field (26 nm east), Denton Enterprise Airport (27 nm south), Bowie Municipal (29 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Texas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- PRE-DATES act.
- Runway 18/36 medium-intensity runway lights preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- 100LL SELF-SERVE and full serve.
- Markings faded.
- Markings faded.
- Runway has aim points.
- Also 32 feet power line, 1290 feet dstc, 445 L/R. approach slope 34:1.
- Extensive cracking.
- Helicopter skid landing prohibited on all asphalt surfaces.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
Within ten miles
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
- Looking…
From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 1 departures from GLE in those twelve months, carrying 12 passengers in 13 seats (92% filled), to 1 destination on 1 airline.
| Where to | Flights | Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gainesville Municipal → Nashville GLE–TN8 | 1 | 12 | CFM Inc d/b/a Contour... |
All 1 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 73 |
| multi-engine | 10 |
| jets | 7 |
| helicopters | 1 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 24,300, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| general aviation, travelling | 12,100 |
| general aviation, local | 12,100 |
| military | 100 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Gainesville from the FAA register
57 aircraft are registered to owners in Gainesville, Texas: 54 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Repair stations in Gainesville:
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
21 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 21 for private pilot, 21 for commercial and instrument, 14 for airline transport pilot, 20 for flight instructor, 4 for sport pilot, 1 for type ratings; 20 for airplanes, 15 for multi-engine airplanes, 2 for helicopters, 1 for balloons. Also nearby: 2 sport aviation examiners, 22 aviation medical examiners, 3 mechanic examiners, 4 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 8 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 12 engineering representatives, 5 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 39 training center evaluators, 21 aircrew program designees, 4 training center examiners, 7 administrative pilot examiners.
- Brandon Ayers private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot; airplanes · Ayers Aviation llc · Gainesville, TX (0 nm) · (940) 782-8062 · [email protected]
- Christopher Charles Webb private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Denton, TX (27 nm) · (469) 601-5695 · [email protected]
- Dale Williamson private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, helicopters · Hangar 10 Flying Museum · Denton, TX (27 nm) · (817) 657-4726 · [email protected]
- James Harry Lightfoot private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Denton, TX (27 nm) · (817) 721-0091 · [email protected]
- John Stephen Bradley private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Celina, TX (29 nm) · (214) 616-4948 · [email protected]
- Kenny James Seaman private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Monarch Air · Denison, TX (30 nm) · (430) 306-4685 · [email protected]
- Ashley Noel Snider private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · Decatur, TX (31 nm) · (210) 544-4243 · [email protected]
- Victor Erik Wilson private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Northlake, TX (34 nm) · (817) 713-2334 · [email protected]
All 148 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Gainesville 57 aircraft · 54 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 business jets
- 2F Trade LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Ayers Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Safran Seats USA LLC · repair station
- Nashville (TN8) 1 flights in twelve months · CFM Inc d/b/a Contour Airlines d/b/a One Jet Shuttle
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 13 since 1982 · 2 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,061 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 392 landing places
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/GLE.json.
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 23, 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.