Chester County G O Carlson
MQS · KMQS · Coatesville, Pennsylvania · Chester County · map
Chester County G O Carlson is a public-use airport owned by Chester CO Arpt Auth, 2 miles west of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, 660 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 5,400 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KMQS · observed 3:35 pm EDT (19:35 UTC), 21 minutes ago
- Wind variable at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 60°F (15°C), dew point 37°F (3°C)
- Altimeter 30.11 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KMQS 061935Z AUTO VRB06KT 10SM 15/03 A3011 RMK AO2 T01540028 $
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MQS · ICAO KMQS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Chester CO Arpt Auth
- Elevation
- 660 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 10:00 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
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1937
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 5,400 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: PAPI, four lights on the right, tree 56 ft high 777 ft from the end
- Runway 29: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 14 ft high 238 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.6 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.35 | |
| Mqs and aWOS-3 | 126.25 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 610-384-6132.
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 Coatesville from the FAA register
24 aircraft are registered to owners in Coatesville, Pennsylvania: 10 piston singles, 7 helicopters, 3 drones, 2 piston twins, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Pennsylvania.
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
- Migratory birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Dusk to dawn. Activate runway end identifier lights runway 11/29; high-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 - the common traffic frequency.
- Unusable beyond 6 degrees left of crs.
- +164 feet water tower 1343 feet from runway 11 threshold 1842 feet R marked with strobe light daylight hours; standard obstruction light night hours.
- Helicopter operations in the vicinity of airport south and southwest of runway 11 thld.
- Helicopter traffic requested to land and takeoff from runway only. Helicopter hover taxiing, takeoffs, and landings prohibited from taxiway alpha.
- Hover taxi along txy alpha prohibited. Wheel taxi on txy or hover from runway to ramp side parking spot by crossing perpendicular to alpha.
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.