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K4R9 ·

Dauphin Island Airport

30.26050°N

-88.12750°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Dauphin Island Airport (K4R9) is a small general aviation airport located in Dauphin Island, AL, 30 mi south of Mobile. It features 1 runway measuring 3,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KBFM, 26 mi away (K4R9 does not publish METAR)

33m ago

Temp

83°F

Wind

4 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBFM 270653Z AUTO 27004KT 10SM CLR 28/26 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP146 T02830256

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX

12/30

3,000 ft × 80

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

78% of ops

97 land · 16 TO

22% of ops

27 land · 17 TO

Runway 30 carries 78% of operations (97 landings, 16 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

30 97 landings

UA 7%

12 27 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 30 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 97 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 · 101 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 4pm · 1pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–1pm local, averaging 3.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (4.6 vs 3.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 98 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Mag var:: 2° E

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

jwbruce

09/05/2012

great for a daytrip

a short five minute walk from the airport to a sugar-white sand public beach. Local restaurants will pick you up at the airport. 4R9 is a great day-trip or weekend getaway air strip. Just remember that there is no fuel or any services here at all. The strip is bit short and short final to RWY12 looks like you are about to land on a carrier. But that is the charm of 4R9 I guess.

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