Moody Air Force Base
VAD · KVAD · Valdosta, Georgia · Lowndes County · map
Moody Air Force Base is a private airport owned by Usaf, 9 miles northeast of Valdosta, Georgia, 233 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 01R/19L, is 9,300 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A with additives).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VAD · ICAO KVAD
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf
- Elevation
- 233 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with approach control · 1300-0600z++ mon-thu, 1300-0000z++ friday, closed saturday, sunday and holidays, and acc family days.
- Attended
- Monday to Thursday, 1:00 pm to 0600z; Friday, 1:00 pm to 0000z
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A with additives; the services card below
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01R/19L | 9,300 × 150 ft | Concrete | High-intensity lights |
| 01L/19R | 8,002 × 150 ft | Partially concrete | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 01R: localizer and glideslope, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1)
- Runway 19L: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1)
- Runway 01L: PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights (MALS)
- Runway 19R: PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 128.45 | Moody |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 142.6 | Moody |
| Clearance delivery | 120.625 | Moody |
| Ground | 138.95 | Moody |
| Approach Above 8000 feet | 125.475 | Moody |
| Departure · Approach and departure Below 8000 feet; East of vad 360-VAD 180 | 126.6 | Moody |
| Approach · Approach and departure Below 8000 feet; West of vad R-360 radial | 132.375 | Moody |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Moody |
| Alma and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.575 | Moody |
| Sof | 143.825 | Moody |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Oxygen
- bulk oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- cargo handling
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Valdosta Regional (12 nm south), Berrien County (15 nm north), Cook County (17 nm northwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Georgia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Dusk to dawn. Afld lgting intermittent 1 hour after official sunset until afld closure due to nvg training on afld.
- Ovhd traffic pattern 2200 feet above sea level.
- Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays, and acc family days.
- Autovon 460-1110
- Hook E5 (88 feet ovrn)
- Hook BAK-12B(B) 1500 feet).
- Hook (95 feet ovrn).
- Hook BAK-12B(B) (1100 feet).
- Hook E5 (95 feet ovrn).
- Hook E5 (90 feet ovrn)
- Runway 01L/19R E-5 approach/departure end disconnected from energy absorbers (chains). Contact tower 30 minimums prio FO runway 01L/19R E-5 configuration.
- Fluid: SP lpox lox.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Valdosta from the FAA register
96 aircraft are registered to owners in Valdosta, Georgia: 66 piston singles, 9 business jets, 8 gliders, 7 piston twins, 4 weight-shift and powered parachutes. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Georgia.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Rose City Soaring Association INC 2 aircraft · Valdosta, 14 miles away
- South Ga Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Valdosta, 14 miles away
Repair stations in Valdosta:
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Valdosta 96 aircraft · 66 piston singles, 9 business jets, 8 gliders
- Bell Air LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Valdosta Flying Service INC 2 aircraft in town
- Southern Aircraft LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Rose City Soaring Association INC 2 aircraft in town
- Rose City Soaring Association INC 2 aircraft · flying club
- South Ga Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Saft America INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Georgia 2,138 since 1982 · 362 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Georgia 105 landing places
- Georgia 8,801 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/VAD.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.