Jimmy Carter Regional Airport satellite view

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KACJ ·

Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

32.11080°N

-84.18890°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 4.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 30.0%

Jimmy Carter Regional Airport (KACJ) is a small general aviation airport located in Americus, GA, 53 mi south east of Columbus. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,021 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11h ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KACJ 170335Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 27/26 A3003 RMK AO2 T02700264 $

Runways

2 installed

6,021 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

56% of ops

106 land · 76 TO

24% of ops

46 land · 26 TO

9% of ops

17 land · 9 TO

5% of ops

9 land · 5 TO

4% of ops

7 land · 0 TO

2% of ops

3 land · 0 TO

Runway 23 carries 56% of operations (106 landings, 76 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

23 106 landings

UA 7%

05 46 landings

UA 15%

27 17 landings

UA 18%

28 9 landings

UA 22%

09 7 landings

UA 14%

10 3 landings

UA 33%

Approaches to 23 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 106 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

5.5

flights/day · 165 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 4pm

Day vs night

81%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 5.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (6.1 vs 5.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 136 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	124.200	—
APCH	323.100	—
APCH	353.750	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	128.375	—
CD/P	119.950	—
OTHER	119.950	—
MACON RC	134.500	—
OTHER	134.500	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 4° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Fluky

10/31/2019

(no subject)

Charles Lindbergh first solo was at this field.

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