Galion Municipal
GQQ · KGQQ · Galion, Ohio · Richland County · map
Galion Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Galion, 3 miles northeast of Galion, Ohio, 1,224 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,504 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 13 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,216 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GQQ · ICAO KGQQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Galion
- Elevation
- 1,224 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1949
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,504 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 186 ft, tree 35 ft high 568 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left, crops 10 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 126.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 128.35 | |
| Mansfield and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,216, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
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.
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 Galion from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Galion, Ohio: 14 piston singles. 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 Ohio.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 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
- And crawford county.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23; PAPI runway 05 and 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- 100LL available H24 self service via credit card.
- +10 crops, 172 feet dist, 200 feet L/R.
- Approach ratio 18:1 to dthr.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Student training activity.
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.