Kaolin Field
OKZ · KOKZ · Sandersville, Georgia · Washington County · map
Kaolin Field is a public-use airport owned by Washington CO, 2 miles southwest of Sandersville, Georgia, 438 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 5,501 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA OKZ · ICAO KOKZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Washington CO
- Elevation
- 438 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 5,501 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 21 ft high 450 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 486 ft, 5,015 ft available for landing, pole 60 ft high 1,099 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.2 | |
| Okz and aWOS-3 | 120.575 | |
| Macon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 123.95 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 478-240-9432.
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Aircraft registered in Sandersville from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Sandersville, Georgia: 13 piston singles. 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 Georgia.
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
- Deer on and in the vicinity of runways and taxiways.
- Runway end identifier lights runway 13; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 preset low intst DUSK-2200; to incr intst and activate aft 2200 - the common traffic frequency. Activate PAPI runways 13 and 31 - the common traffic frequency.
- And city of Sandersville
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.