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Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport

30.61180°N
-81.46120°W
ARR / DAY
18
▲ 44.8%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 9.8%

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 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

From KJAX, 16 mi away (K55J does not publish METAR)

17m ago
Temp
85°F
Wind
17 kts
40°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KJAX 161956Z 04017G23KT 10SM BKN031 BKN250 29/22 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP231 T02940217 $

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
36% of ops
291 land · 11 TO
36
20% of ops
160 land · 21 TO
22
12% of ops
93 land · 1 TO
13
11% of ops
86 land · 7 TO
04
9% of ops
70 land · 17 TO
31
4% of ops
36 land · 4 TO
Runway 18 carries 36% of operations (291 landings, 11 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

18 291 landings
UA 0%
36 160 landings
UA 0%
22 93 landings
UA 0%
13 86 landings
UA 0%
04 70 landings
UA 0%
31 36 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 291 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
24.7
flights/day · 741 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 5pm · 1pm
Day vs night
75%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 24.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (22.4 vs 26.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

238 · 44%
69 · 13%
38 · 7%
18 · 3%
16 · 3%
16 · 3%
Activity is led by (44% of 535 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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