Gray Army Airfield (Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord)
GRF · KGRF · Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Washington · Pierce County · map
Gray Army Airfield (Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord) is a private airport owned by the US Army Aeronautical Svcs Agency, 1 mile east of Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Washington, 301 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 15/33, is 6,124 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (Jet A with additives).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GRF · ICAO KGRF
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Army
- Owner
- US Army Aeronautical Svcs Agency
- Elevation
- 301 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · operates h24 mon-fri, closed weekends and holidays.
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- Jet A with additives; the services card below
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1943
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 6,124 × 150 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
| H2 | 100 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | |
| H3 | 100 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | |
| H4 | 100 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete |
- Runway 15: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, short approach lights with alignment lights (SSALR), tower 114 ft high 2,613 ft from the end
- Runway 33: short approach lights with alignment lights (SSALR)
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.325 | Gray |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 124.65 | Gray |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.9 | Gray |
| Approach and departure | 120.1 | Gray |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Gray |
| Ng and operations | 123.075 | Gray |
| Pilot-to-weather (military) and metro | 134.1 | Gray |
| Operations | 138.6 | Gray |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- Jet A with additives
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Tacoma Narrows Airport (11 nm north), Pierce County/Thun Field (12 nm east), Olympia Regional (15 nm southwest), Auburn Municipal (21 nm northeast).
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Tacoma Narrows Airport (11 nm north), Olympia Regional (15 nm southwest), Auburn Municipal (21 nm northeast).
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 Washington · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- East/west traffic, F/west 1800 feet, R/west 800 feet.
- Military; ltd supply; nato F24 available; transient alert 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm++.
- PAPI runway 15 unusable beyond 8 degreess right of centerline.
- Ctn: small arms ranges 0.8 NM east and 3.3 NM northwest of afld.
- See flip AP/1 supplementary airport rmk.
- Restricted: 72 hour prior permission required tran aircraft. No tran aircraft wkend and holidays.
- Pje in the vicinity of airport.
- Misc: special VFR day F/west 700-1, R/west 300- 1/2. Night F/west NA, R/west 500-1. Tactical operations on jblm military rsvn - contact operations prior. Contact Gray traffic on the common traffic frequency when tower closed. Class D asp when the control tower open; otr times class east. Transient hngr NA. Base operations, tower and weather MON-FRI H24; closed wkend; closed holidays.
- Arng: operates 1430-0100Z++ TUE-FRI except holidays. Tran alert service NA.
- Ctn: non rdo paew on gnd control xng taxiway G and H.
- Misc: add rcr rptd MON-FR 7:00 am to 3:00 pm via NOTAM and ATIS durg inclement winter weather.
- No DE-ICE
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Joint Base Lewis Mcchord from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, WA as the owner's town.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Clover Park Technical College 23 aircraft · Lakewood, 4 miles away
- Safety In Motion Flight Center INC 11 aircraft · Puyallup, 14 miles away Safety in Motion Flight Center is a flight school and fixed base operator in the Pacific Northwest.
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.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 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
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Washington 2,713 since 1982 · 362 in the last ten years
- Clover Park Technical College 23 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Safety In Motion Flight Center INC 11 aircraft · flight school
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Washington 130 landing places
- Washington 10,644 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/GRF.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 6, 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.