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Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport

30.61180°N
-81.46120°W
ARR / DAY
18
▼ 28.0%
DEP / DAY
9
▼ 25.0%

Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport (K55J) is a small general aviation airport located in Fernandina Beach, FL, 22 mi north east of Jacksonville. It features 4 runways with the longest being 5,300 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 18 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KNRB, 15 mi away (K55J does not publish METAR)

39m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
0 m
Ceil
—
KNRB 151952Z AUTO A3012 RMK AO2 SLP200 PWINO TSNO $

Runways

4 installed

5,300 FT MAX
04/22
5,300 ft × 100
ASP● LIT
08/26
4,999 ft × 100
ASP○ unlit
13/31
5,152 ft × 100
ASP● LIT
18/36
3,580 ft × 150
ASP○ unlitCLOSED

Runway intelligence

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

18
39% of ops
479 land · 5 TO
13
18% of ops
219 land · 9 TO
36
17% of ops
209 land · 20 TO
22
9% of ops
106 land · 6 TO
04
7% of ops
90 land · 18 TO
08
4% of ops
53 land · 1 TO
Runway 18 carries 39% of operations (479 landings, 5 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

18 479 landings
UA 1%
13 219 landings
UA 0%
36 209 landings
UA 3%
22 106 landings
UA 0%
04 90 landings
UA 0%
08 53 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 479 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
26.1
flights/day · 784 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 1pm · 2pm
Day vs night
75%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 26.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (20.0 vs 29.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

250 · 47%
64 · 12%
28 · 5%
22 · 4%
15 · 3%
14 · 3%
Activity is led by (47% of 533 flights). Top three types: , , .

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

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
HAD
5/27/2020
Beautiful new FBO
One of the most interesting FBO buildings, anywhere. Great airport on a beautiful island
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