West Georgia Regional Airport (ICAO: KCTJ, FAA LID: CTJ), also known as O. V. Gray Field, is a public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) northwest of the central business district of Carrollton, in Carroll County, Georgia, United States. It is owned by the West Georgia Airport Authority.[1]

West Georgia Regional Airport O. V. Gray Field
IATA: none ICAO: KCTJ FAA LID: CTJ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	West Georgia Airport Authority
Serves	Carrollton, Georgia
Elevation AMSL	1,161 ft / 354 m
Coordinates	33°37′54″N 085°09′08″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 17/35 5,503 1,677 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 24,500 Based aircraft 43
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CTJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 396 acres (160 ha) at an elevation of 1,161 feet (354 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 17/35 which measures 5,503 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2008, the airport had 24,500 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 2% jet and 2% helicopter.[1]

Incidents and Accidents

• Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, which had left Atlanta International Airport for Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport suffered an engine failure and was en route to West Georgia Regional Airport when it crashed into a field, killing eight people and fatally wounding another.
• On September 7, 2016, a Diamond DA20C1 and a Beech F33A collided midair at 10:56 am, killing all three people involved. One plane was privately owned and the other was from a flight school in the Carrollton area.[3] Both of the planes crash landed a couple of yards away from end of the runway.

References

External links

• FAA Terminal Procedures for CTJ, effective June 16, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for CTJ
  • AirNav airport information for CTJ
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for CTJ