Grand Canyon Regional
N38 · Wellsboro, Pennsylvania · Tioga County · map
Grand Canyon Regional is a public-use airport, 4 miles southwest of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, 1,892 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 3,597 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA N38
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 1,892 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm; weekends, unatt
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1947
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 3,597 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 11/29 | 1,576 × 80 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 10: trees 45 ft high 582 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 128.425 | |
| N38 and aWOS-3PT | 120.925 | |
| Sayre and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.35 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 570-723-0385.
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 Wellsboro from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania: 11 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Grass runway 11/29 1600 feet an X 100 feet day VFR only; non simultaneous operations; closed annually DEC-APR.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 28; medium-intensity runway lights 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
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.