Macon Downtown Airport
MAC · KMAC · Macon, Georgia · Bibb County · map
Macon Downtown Airport is a public-use airport owned by Macon-Bibb County Consolidated Govt, 3 miles southeast of Macon, Georgia, 437 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 4,694 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MAC · ICAO KMAC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Macon-Bibb County Consolidated Govt
- Elevation
- 437 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 4,694 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: localizer with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 255 ft, 4,184 ft available for landing, trees 29 ft high 388 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 254 ft, 4,184 ft available for landing, trees 32 ft high 952 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.2 | |
| Macon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.5 |
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Aircraft registered in Macon from the FAA register
88 aircraft are registered to owners in Macon, Georgia: 51 piston singles, 11 piston twins, 10 business jets, 8 turboprops, 7 helicopters. 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 Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 3 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights and PAPI runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- For certain services.
- Middle Georgia regional airport
- Runway 28 PAPI unusable beyond 7 degrees RT of rcl.
- Runway 10 approach slope to displaced threshold is 22:1; trees 643FT from displaced threshold 277FT right.
- 825 feet above sea level radio tower located approximately 1 mile southeast of airport.
- Wildlife near airport.
- Pdew adjacent to movement areas from apr 1 to nov 1 for grass cutting.
- Taxiway a unusable by a/C gtr than 49 feet wingspan while aircraft arrival or departure on runway 10/28.
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.