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 International [Air Transport Association|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.