📍 Fishers Island⬆ 9 ft2 runways

K0B8 · FID

Elizabeth Field

41.25130°N

-72.03160°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 44.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 37.5%

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 2,328 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 KSFZ, 54 mi away (K0B8 does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

63°F

Wind

15 kts

40°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSFZ 251756Z AUTO 04015KT 10SM CLR 17/09 A3011 RMK AO2 PK WND 04026/1715 SLP195 T01720089 10172 20106 58019 $

Runways

2 installed

2,328 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

32% of ops

56 land · 8 TO

29% of ops

50 land · 14 TO

24% of ops

41 land · 4 TO

15% of ops

26 land · 8 TO

Runway 12 carries 32% of operations (56 landings, 8 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

12 56 landings

UA 4%

30 50 landings

UA 16%

07 41 landings

UA 10%

25 26 landings

UA 15%

Approaches to 12 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 56 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

7.8

flights/day · 235 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 1pm · 6pm

Day vs night

69%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–9pm local, averaging 7.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (7.5 vs 8.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 195 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

6/29/2013

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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