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Winter Haven Regional Airport - Gilbert Field

28.06290°N
-81.75330°W
ARR / DAY
12
▼ 61.5%
DEP / DAY
14
▼ 60.2%

Winter Haven Regional Airport - Gilbert Field (KGIF/GIF) is a small general aviation airport located in Winter Haven, FL. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,005 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 12 arrivals and 14 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

Latest METAR observation

23h ago
Temp
84°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KGIF 080153Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 29/23 A3012 RMK AO1 SLP195 T02940233

Runways

2 installed

5,005 FT MAX
05/23
5,005 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED
11/29
4,001 ft × 60
ASP○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

11
34% of ops
505 land · 79 TO
5
30% of ops
439 land · 233 TO
23
28% of ops
412 land · 64 TO
29
8% of ops
123 land · 45 TO
Runway 11 carries 34% of operations (505 landings, 79 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 5 at 30%.

Approach quality

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

11 505 landings
UA 6%
5 439 landings
UA 3%
23 412 landings
UA 5%
29 123 landings
UA 5%
Approaches to 11 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (28 UA events from 505 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
40.4
flights/day · 1,212 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 2pm · 3pm
Day vs night
78%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 40.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (44.8 vs 40.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

570 · 58%
124 · 13%
46 · 5%
38 · 4%
29 · 3%
26 · 3%
Activity is led by (58% of 990 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.050 —
APCH 119.900 —
APCH 120.650 —
APCH 290.300 —
UNICOM 123.050 —
ASOS 133.675 —
OTHER 121.725 —
APT REMA 121.725 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMA
Mag var:
4° W
Fuel:
100LL, MOGAS

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

2 comments from OurAirports — click to expand

2
airbound
05/23/2011
GIF - Winter Haven - Excellent Flight School (Tailwheelsetc)
Awesome experience with primary training. Intense and very rewarding. Family like environment.
moski
04/13/2008
Sun n' Fun Spot
This is a decent spot to fly into for Sun n' Fun. It's a bit far away from the Lakeland, but easy to get into and out of so much less hassle. They charged a $4/night parking fee (2008) and a $4.99 service charge for gassing up, on top of the fuel charge.
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