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George Ford Airport

MS48 · Picayune, Mississippi · Pearl River County · map

George Ford Airport is a private airport, 6 miles north of Picayune, Mississippi, 62 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,735 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA MS48
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 62 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: New Orleans sectional
Magnetic variation: 1E
In the FAA's files since: July 2000

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
18/36	2,735 × 80 ft	Grass

Runway 18: trees 50 ft high 500 ft from the end
Runway 36: trees 50 ft high 500 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Picayune from the FAA register

45 aircraft are registered to owners in Picayune, Mississippi: 24 helicopters, 14 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 2 gliders, 2 business jets. 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:

Chevron USA INC 12Top Flight Aviation of Mississippi LLC 4Hornet International LLC 4Chevron U S A INC 3925Dt LLC 3Twi Air LLC 2Dt Air LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Mississippi.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Picayune Municipal MJD · 8 nm south Poplarville/Pearl River County M13 · 14 nm northeast George R Carr Memorial Air Field BXA · 14 nm northwest Slidell Airport ASD · 18 nm south St. Tammany Regional L31 · 18 nm southwest Stennis International HSA · 20 nm southeast Diamondhead Airport 66Y · 22 nm southeast Franklinton Airport 2R7 · 25 nm northwest

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided VFR operations, pvt use, owners of simpson field and karl scott airport honor the letter of agreement.
50 feet trees along both sides of runway 150 feet from runway centerline.

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.