South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr. Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Greater Lafourche Port Commission | ||||||||||
| Serves | Galliano, Louisiana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1 ft / 0.3 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°26′28″N 090°15′40″W / 29.44111°N 90.26111°W | ||||||||||
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South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr. Airport (ICAO: KGAO, FAA LID: GAO, formerly L49[2]) is a public use airport in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States.[1] It is owned by the Greater Lafourche Port Commission and located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Galliano, Louisiana.[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[3]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned GAO by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[4] (which assigned GAO to Los Canos Airport in Guantanamo, Cuba).[5][6]
South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr. Airport covers an area of 390 acres (158 ha) at an elevation of 1 feet (0.3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,502 by 100 feet (1,982 x 30 m). It also has one helipad designated H1 with a concrete surface measuring 60 by 60 feet (18 x 18 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending April 12, 2012, the airport had 14,004 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 99.6% general aviation and 0.4% military. At that time there were 29 aircraft based at this airport: 58.6% helicopter, 27.6% single-engine, and 13.8% jet.[1]