📍 Fishers Island⬆ 9 ft2 runways

K0B8 · FID

Elizabeth Field

41.25130°N

-72.03160°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 62.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 60.0%

Elizabeth Field (K0B8/FID) is a small general aviation airport located in Fishers Island, NY, 47 mi east of New Haven. It features 2 runways with the longest being 2,345 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KGON, 5 mi away (K0B8 does not publish METAR)

30m ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

6 kts

180°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGON 272256Z 18006KT 10SM CLR 23/21 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP154 T02280206

Runways

2 installed

2,345 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

33% of ops

78 land · 20 TO

31% of ops

73 land · 10 TO

22% of ops

52 land · 1 TO

14% of ops

34 land · 13 TO

Runway 30 carries 33% of operations (78 landings, 20 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

30 78 landings

UA 21%

12 73 landings

UA 5%

07 52 landings

UA 8%

25 34 landings

UA 18%

Approaches to 30 show a 21% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 78 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

10.7

flights/day · 320 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 7pm · 4pm

Day vs night

70%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 10.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (9.1 vs 11.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 270 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	125.750	—
APCH	319.200	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
WOODSTOC	124.850	—
OTHER	124.850	—
WOODSTOC	307.900	—
OTHER	307.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZBW
Mag var:: 14° W

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

06/29/2013

Practice Field

When I was a student back in 1987 it was a great little field at which to practice. There was nothing to distract a student pilot. The short runways are ideal for practicing short field landings and departures.

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