Gainesville Regional
GNV · KGNV · Gainesville, Florida · Alachua County · map
Gainesville Regional is a public-use airport owned by Gainesville-Alachua CO Auth, 3 miles northeast of Gainesville, Florida, 151 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 11/29, is 7,504 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GNV · ICAO KGNV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Gainesville-Alachua CO Auth
- Elevation
- 151 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:45 am to 10:30 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Jacksonville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 7,504 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 07/25 | 4,158 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 81 ft high 2,783 ft from the end
- Runway 29: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 68 ft high 3,535 ft from the end
- Runway 07: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 70 ft high 2,006 ft from the end
- Runway 25: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 34 ft high 1,389 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.55 | Gainesville |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Gnv and automated weather (ASOS) | 127.15 | Gainesville |
| Ground | 121.7 | Gainesville |
| Approach and departure 10000 feet and below | 118.175 | Gainesville |
| Gators and rco | 122.2 | Gators |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 352-335-8672.
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Aircraft registered in Gainesville from the FAA register
156 aircraft are registered to owners in Gainesville, Florida: 97 piston singles, 30 business jets, 13 piston twins, 5 turboprops, 5 gliders. 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 Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 37 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
- Runway 7/25 not available for schedule air carrier operations with more than 9 passenger seats or unscheduled air carrier at least 31 passenger seats.
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 29; medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25; high-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 - the common traffic frequency.
- GAINESVILLE-ALACHUA county regional airport authority
- Runway 07/25 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Standard grooving full length and 130 feet wide center portion.
- Portions of runway 07/25 and northeast 1000 feet of taxiway a not vsb from the control tower; blocked by vortac building.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- General aviation ramp lmtd to aircraft 110,000 LB or below; others prior permission required.
- Banner towing NA except 72 hour prior permission required - amgr.
- Airport surface condition not mntd btw 2330 - 0400 daily.
- Runway 11-29 markings on west end are not standard due to markings not fully removed/ghosting.
- Taxiway B lmtd to 75,000 LB or below; others prior permission required
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.