Sylvester Airport
SYV · KSYV · Sylvester, Georgia · Worth County · map
Sylvester Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Sylvester, 3 miles northwest of Sylvester, Georgia, 403 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 4,525 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 7 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 2,100 takeoffs and landings a year. About 13 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SYV · ICAO KSYV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Sylvester
- Elevation
- 403 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- M to F, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1966
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 4,525 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Albany and center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.75 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 2,100, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Sylvester from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Sylvester, Georgia: 3 piston singles, 1 drone. 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 · 2 since 1982, 0 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 airport.
- Dusk to dawn. Activate PAPI runway 01 and 19; medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 - 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.