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Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport

30.61180°N
-81.46120°W
ARR / DAY
0
▼ 100.0%
DEP / DAY
0
▼ 100.0%

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 5,301 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 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)

49m ago
Temp
82°F
Wind
9 kts
290°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KNRB 270852Z AUTO 29009KT 10SM FEW044 28/24 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP112 T02780244 55006 $

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
467 land · 49 TO
18
31% of ops
466 land · 30 TO
04
11% of ops
162 land · 29 TO
22
8% of ops
128 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 (467 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

36 467 landings
UA 1%
18 466 landings
UA 1%
04 162 landings
UA 0%
22 128 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 467 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
22.3
flights/day · 670 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 1pm
Day vs night
77%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 22.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (27.5 vs 21.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

220 · 46%
51 · 11%
22 · 5%
20 · 4%
19 · 4%
17 · 4%
Activity is led by (46% of 483 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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