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09FA ·

Placid Lakes Airport

27.24560°N

-81.41310°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 41.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 12.5%

Placid Lakes Airport (09FA) is a small general aviation airport located in Lake Placid, FL, 58 mi north east of Cape Coral. It features 1 runway measuring 4,800 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KPGD, 42 mi away (09FA does not publish METAR)

1h ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

4 kts

120°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KPGD 250653Z AUTO 12004KT 10SM CLR 25/24 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP168 T02500244 $

Runways

1 installed

4,800 FT MAX

18/36

4,800 ft × 50

ASPH-E● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

76% of ops

101 land · 0 TO

24% of ops

32 land · 17 TO

Runway 36 carries 76% of operations (101 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 24%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

36 101 landings

UA 0%

18 32 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 36 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 101 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

4.8

flights/day · 143 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 12pm

Day vs night

90%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12pm–1pm local, averaging 4.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (4.5 vs 5.1 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (26% of 121 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMA
Elevation:: 130 ft
Mag var:: 2° W
Fuel:: 100, UL94

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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