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Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport

30.61180°N
-81.46120°W
ARR / DAY
15
▼ 19.8%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 5.0%

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 15 arrivals and 6 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)

19m ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
10 kts
70°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KJAX 011956Z 07010G19KT 10SM SCT037 SCT150 BKN250 31/23 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP168 T03110233 $

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
36% of ops
208 land · 9 TO
36
18% of ops
107 land · 16 TO
13
14% of ops
84 land · 6 TO
22
11% of ops
64 land · 5 TO
04
9% of ops
51 land · 8 TO
09
5% of ops
29 land · 0 TO
Runway 18 carries 36% of operations (208 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

18 208 landings
UA 0%
36 107 landings
UA 0%
13 84 landings
UA 0%
22 64 landings
UA 0%
04 51 landings
UA 2%
09 29 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 208 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
23.9
flights/day · 717 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 4pm · 1pm
Day vs night
78%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 23.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (21.6 vs 25.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

202 · 41%
68 · 14%
48 · 10%
19 · 4%
14 · 3%
14 · 3%
Activity is led by (41% of 494 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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