Gillespie Field safety profile
35 recorded occurrences at or near Gillespie Field (2008–2025): 17 at the airport, 18 nearby; 5 fatal, 12 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 128 runway incursions at this airport, including 3 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2021-12-28 — Gates Learjet Corporation 35A, Aeromedevac Inc (4 fatalities) — 3.1 km
- 2015-09-03 (2 fatalities) — 1.6 km
- 2021-10-11 — SAMARTH AVIATION LLC (1 fatalities) — 3.5 km
- 2012-01-30 — WOODARD GORDON (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2024-04-29 — Bellanca 17-31ATC — 4.4 km
- 2023-09-27 — 0.0 km
- 2023-09-09 — BLUE MAX AVIATION LLC — 0.0 km
- 2022-08-18 — 0.0 km
- 2021-09-21 — 0.0 km
- 2020-10-23 — 4.0 km
- 2018-07-28 — 0.0 km
- 2017-12-17 — 0.0 km
Runways
- 09L/27R: 5,342 ft, ASP, lighted
- 17/35: 4,145 ft, ASP, lighted
- 09R/27L: 2,738 ft, ASP
Weather patterns
- Fog: 20.597 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 1.1 days/year
- Snow: 0 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.02% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0.01% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.