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Palatka Municipal - Lt. Kay Larkin Field

29.65860°N
-81.68890°W
ARR / DAY
25
13.6%
DEP / DAY
11
21.4%

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 25 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago
Temp
37°F
Wind
4 kts
250°
Visib
Ceil
METAR K28J 061355Z AUTO 25004KT 1 3/4SM HZ CLR 30/26 A2991 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

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

27
24% of ops
264 land · 65 TO
30
18% of ops
192 land · 14 TO
35
18% of ops
190 land · 18 TO
24
14% of ops
155 land · 24 TO
17
9% of ops
93 land · 20 TO
09
8% of ops
82 land · 48 TO
Runway 27 carries 24% of operations (264 landings, 65 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

27 264 landings
UA 0%
30 192 landings
UA 1%
35 190 landings
UA 5%
24 155 landings
UA 0%
17 93 landings
UA 0%
09 82 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 27 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 264 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
30.2
flights/day · 905 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 12pm · 11am
Day vs night
86%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 11am–1pm local, averaging 30.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (36.5 vs 29.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (48% of 765 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 10:44 UTC