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K4R9 ·

Dauphin Island Airport

30.26050°N

-88.12750°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 72.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 93.3%

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

82°F

Wind

6 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBFM 260853Z VRB06KT 10SM CLR 28/26 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP166 T02780256 56013

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

77% of ops

103 land · 16 TO

23% of ops

31 land · 23 TO

Runway 30 carries 77% of operations (103 landings, 16 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

30 103 landings

UA 7%

12 31 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 30 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 103 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

3.6

flights/day · 108 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 12am · 1pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 3.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (4.8 vs 3.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (47% of 103 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

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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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