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09FA ·

Placid Lakes Airport

27.24560°N
-81.41310°W
ARR / DAY
7
0.0%
DEP / DAY
1
50.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KFMY, 53 mi away (09FA does not publish METAR)

36m ago
Temp
92°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KFMY 151653Z 00000KT 10SM FEW042 33/23 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP214 T03330233 $

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

36
62% of ops
120 land · 2 TO
18
38% of ops
72 land · 11 TO
Runway 36 carries 62% of operations (120 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 38%.

Approach quality

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

36 120 landings
UA 0%
18 72 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 36 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 120 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
4.4
flights/day · 132 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 2pm · 12pm
Day vs night
86%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–1pm local, averaging 4.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (4.0 vs 4.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (29% of 111 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

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 17:29 UTC