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Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

32.11080°N
-84.18890°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 57.7%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 60.0%

Jimmy Carter Regional Airport (KACJ) is a small general aviation airport located in Americus, GA, 53 mi south east of Columbus. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,011 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 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

Latest METAR observation

3m ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
5 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KACJ 091415Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM CLR 31/27 A3008 RMK AO2 T03070265

Runways

2 installed

6,011 FT MAX
05/23
6,011 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
10/28
3,786 ft × 75
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

23
59% of ops
142 land · 141 TO
05
26% of ops
61 land · 24 TO
27
13% of ops
30 land · 4 TO
09
3% of ops
6 land · 0 TO
Runway 23 carries 59% of operations (142 landings, 141 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

23 142 landings
UA 13%GA 1.4%
05 61 landings
UA 26%
27 30 landings
UA 13%
09 6 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 23 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (18 UA events from 142 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
6.5
flights/day · 196 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 12pm · 2pm
Day vs night
77%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 6.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (8.0 vs 6.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

63 · 38%
15 · 9%
11 · 7%
10 · 6%
7 · 4%
6 · 4%
Activity is led by (38% of 164 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 124.200 —
APCH 323.100 —
APCH 353.750 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 128.375 —
CD/P 119.950 —
OTHER 119.950 —
MACON RC 134.500 —
OTHER 134.500 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
4° W
Fuel:
100LL

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
Fluky
10/31/2019
(no subject)
Charles Lindbergh first solo was at this field.
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