Georgetown County Airport (IATA: GGE, ICAO: KGGE, FAA LID: GGE) is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Georgetown, a city in Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States.
[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
Georgetown airport was built in 1941 by the United States Navy and was used by the United States Marine Corps during World War II as an auxiliary airfield assigned to Parris Island Airfield.
Georgetown Marine Corps Airfield (OLF) was also used by the United States Army Air Force light observation squadrons (105th, 112th) flying antisubmarine patrols over the Atlantic from May 1942 until August 1942.
[1] For the 12-month period ending February 22, 2012, the airport had 48,000 aircraft operations, an average of 131 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi, and 1% military.