Gila Bend AF Aux Airport
GXF · KGXF · Gila Bend, Arizona · Maricopa County · map
Gila Bend AF Aux Airport is a private airport owned by Usaf, 3 miles south of Gila Bend, Arizona, 881 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 8,503 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.
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 Gila Bend AF Aux Airport…
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA GXF · ICAO KGXF
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf
- Elevation
- 881 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · operates 1430-0630z mon-fri, 1500-2359z wkend, closed holidays.
- Attended
- every day, durg schedule rng periods only
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- Jet A with additives; the services card below
- On the chart
- Phoenix sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1942
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 8,503 × 150 ft | Asphalt | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 35: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Tower | 127.75 | Gila Bend |
| Approach and departure South | 125.45 | Gila Bend |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Gila Bend |
| Range and ctl Call: snake eye | 122.775 | Gila Bend |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- Jet A with additives
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Gila Bend Municipal (5 nm northeast), Buckeye Municipal (32 nm north), Phoenix Goodyear Airport (37 nm northeast), Ak-Chin Regional (41 nm east).
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Buckeye Municipal (32 nm north), Phoenix Goodyear Airport (37 nm northeast), Glendale Regional (44 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 Arizona · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Closed holidays.
- Ctn: uneven surface; may cause tail hook to skip ovr cable. Shelters 200 feet from runway centerline. Mid two tie down bolts on cable 9.375 feet apart; 7.5 feet rqr.
- Ctn: uneven surface; may cause tail hook to skip ovr cable. Shelters 200 feet from runway centerline. Mid two tie down bolts on cable 9.375 feet apart; 7.5 feet rqr.
- Jaa; unsupvr rfl service available F-35, F-16, A-10; qualified supvr must be provided.
- Ctn: BA poor when wet.
- Restricted: back taxi required when landing.
- First 1444 feet runway 17 and first 1401 feet runway 35 grooved concrete.
- Restricted: unlgt helicopters ltd UH-60 or smaller; day VFR use WO amgr apvl.
- Restricted: 24 hour prior permission required for landing - 56 rmo/qae D896-5261; except emergency, divert or schedule range operations.
- Ctn: taxiway a 50 feet wide 25 feet shoulders; C-130 idle outboard eng.
- Ctn: outside txls on north and south turn around and parking ramp nonstd - 20 feet to edge.
- Service light: non standard/coincident night vision infra red light 10:00 am to 10:00 pm feet from threshold. Night vision prior permission required.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Gila Bend from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Gila Bend, Arizona: 2 piston singles, 1 turboprop. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Arizona.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Gila Bend 3 aircraft · 2 piston singles, 1 turboprops
- Accidents and incidents in Arizona 2,983 since 1982 · 466 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Arizona 77 landing places
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/GXF.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 October 30, 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.