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Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport

30.61180°N
-81.46120°W
ARR / DAY
17
▼ 21.1%
DEP / DAY
5
▼ 35.1%

Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport (K55J) is a small general aviation airport located in Fernandina Beach, FL, 22 mi north east of Jacksonville. It features 4 runways with the longest being 5,301 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 17 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KJAX, 16 mi away (K55J does not publish METAR)

38m ago
Temp
77°F
Wind
3 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KJAX 271831Z 21003KT 10SM -TSRA FEW004 SCT038CB BKN100 BKN250 25/24 A2999 RMK AO2 OCNL LTGICCG OHD TS OHD MOV NE P0014 T02500239 $

Runways

4 installed

5,301 FT MAX
04/22
5,301 ft × 100
ASP● LIT
09/27
5,000 ft × 100
ASP○ unlit
13/31
5,152 ft × 100
ASP● LIT
18/36
3,580 ft × 150
ASP○ unlitCLOSED

Runway intelligence

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

18
37% of ops
227 land · 7 TO
36
16% of ops
96 land · 14 TO
13
14% of ops
87 land · 5 TO
22
11% of ops
69 land · 6 TO
04
8% of ops
51 land · 7 TO
09
5% of ops
30 land · 1 TO
Runway 18 carries 37% of operations (227 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

18 227 landings
UA 0%
36 96 landings
UA 0%
13 87 landings
UA 0%
22 69 landings
UA 0%
04 51 landings
UA 2%
09 30 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 227 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
24.4
flights/day · 733 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 3pm · 1pm
Day vs night
77%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 24.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (20.9 vs 27.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

210 · 42%
70 · 14%
44 · 9%
20 · 4%
15 · 3%
14 · 3%
Activity is led by (42% of 498 flights). Top three types: , , .

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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
HAD
05/27/2020
Beautiful new FBO
One of the most interesting FBO buildings, anywhere. Great airport on a beautiful island
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