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09FA ·

Placid Lakes Airport

27.24560°N

-81.41310°W

ARR / DAY

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DEP / DAY

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Placid Lakes Airport (09FA) is a small general aviation airport located in Lake Placid, FL, 58 mi north east of Cape Coral. It features 1 runway measuring 4,800 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Wind

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

4,800 FT MAX

18/36

4,800 ft × 50

ASPH-E● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

86% of ops

212 land · 3 TO

14% of ops

34 land · 54 TO

Runway 36 carries 86% of operations (212 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 14%.

Approach quality

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

36 212 landings

UA 0%

18 34 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 36 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 212 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

3.4

flights/day · 102 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 3pm · 2pm

Day vs night

90%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 3.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (3.9 vs 3.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 82 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMA
Elevation:: 130 ft
Mag var:: 2° W
Fuel:: 100, UL94

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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