Gatesville Municipal
GOP · KGOP · Gatesville, Texas · Coryell County · map
Gatesville Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Gatesville, 3 miles west of Gatesville, Texas, 905 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,400 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GOP · ICAO KGOP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Gatesville
- Elevation
- 905 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,400 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 35 ft high 355 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 23 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Gop and aWOS-3PT | 119.725 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 254-865-6742.
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 Gatesville from the FAA register
38 aircraft are registered to owners in Gatesville, Texas: 30 piston singles, 5 balloons, 2 business jets, 1 helicopter. 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 Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Low flying military jet aircraft and helicopter in vicinity.
- Dusk to dawn. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 preset low intst, to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel available 24 hours self serve.
- Rising ground, 32-199 feet dstc, 102-125 R.
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.