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Palatka Municipal - Lt. Kay Larkin Field

29.65860°N
-81.68890°W
ARR / DAY
24
11.1%
DEP / DAY
13
43.5%

Palatka Municipal - Lt. Kay Larkin Field (K28J) is a small general aviation airport located in Palatka, FL, 38 mi east of Gainesville. It features 4 runways with the longest being 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 24 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20m ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR K28J 140755Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 24/24 A3000 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

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

27
24% of ops
220 land · 61 TO
30
18% of ops
163 land · 13 TO
35
16% of ops
148 land · 17 TO
24
15% of ops
133 land · 21 TO
17
9% of ops
84 land · 18 TO
09
8% of ops
76 land · 47 TO
Runway 27 carries 24% of operations (220 landings, 61 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

27 220 landings
UA 0%
30 163 landings
UA 1%
35 148 landings
UA 4%
24 133 landings
UA 1%
17 84 landings
UA 1%
09 76 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 27 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 220 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
30.7
flights/day · 921 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 2pm · 11am
Day vs night
79%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 11am–1pm local, averaging 30.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.7× weekday (44.8 vs 26.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (47% of 780 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
APCH 118.175
APCH 338.250
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 119.925
PALATKA 122.300
OTHER 122.300
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZJX
Mag var:
5° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 08:15 UTC