Georgetown Municipal Airport


Georgetown Executive Airport is in Williamson County, Texas, three miles north of Georgetown. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 categorized it as a reliever airport.
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is GTU to the FAA and has the IATA code QTG.

Facilities

The airport covers at an elevation of 790 feet. It has two asphalt runways: 11/29 is 4,100 by 75 feet and 18/36 is 5,000 by 100 feet.
In the year ending December 31st, 2021, the airport had 120,900 aircraft operations, average 350 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. 320 aircraft were then based at the airport: 77% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 8% jet, 6% helicopters.

Incidents

On February 18, 2010 Andrew Joseph Stack flew a Piper Cherokee from Georgetown Municipal Airport into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. This suicide attack killed one IRS employee and Stack himself.