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Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport

30.61180°N
-81.46120°W
ARR / DAY
4
▼ 84.2%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 84.6%

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 5,301 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 1 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)

26m ago
Temp
92°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KJAX 262056Z 00000KT 10SM FEW030 SCT100 BKN250 33/24 A2988 RMK AO2 RAE11 TSE26 SLP119 P0000 60000 T03330244 58017 $

Runways

4 installed

5,301 FT MAX
04/22
5,301 ft × 100
ASP● LIT
09/27
5,000 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

36
31% of ops
470 land · 49 TO
18
31% of ops
466 land · 33 TO
04
11% of ops
162 land · 29 TO
22
9% of ops
131 land · 3 TO
13
8% of ops
125 land · 23 TO
08
6% of ops
86 land · 13 TO
Runway 36 carries 31% of operations (470 landings, 49 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

36 470 landings
UA 1%
18 466 landings
UA 1%
04 162 landings
UA 0%
22 131 landings
UA 0%
13 125 landings
UA 0%
08 86 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 36 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 470 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
22.5
flights/day · 676 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 1pm
Day vs night
77%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 22.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (27.5 vs 21.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

222 · 45%
51 · 10%
22 · 5%
20 · 4%
20 · 4%
17 · 3%
Activity is led by (45% of 488 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
05/27/2020
Beautiful new FBO
One of the most interesting FBO buildings, anywhere. Great airport on a beautiful island
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