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Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

32.11080°N
-84.18890°W
ARR / DAY
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DEP / DAY
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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.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

From KABY, 40 mi away (KACJ does not publish METAR)

47m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
6 kts
310°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KABY 271350Z AUTO 31006KT 8SM CLR 29/26 A2994 RMK T02900260 MADISHF

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
63% of ops
156 land · 112 TO
05
26% of ops
64 land · 41 TO
27
10% of ops
25 land · 2 TO
28
1% of ops
2 land · 1 TO
09
0% of ops
1 land · 4 TO
Runway 23 carries 63% of operations (156 landings, 112 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

23 156 landings
UA 7%
05 64 landings
UA 14%
27 25 landings
UA 12%
28 2 landings
UA 50%
09 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 23 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 156 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
5.1
flights/day · 154 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 6pm · 1pm
Day vs night
83%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 5.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (5.6 vs 5.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

23 · 17%
22 · 17%
18 · 14%
8 · 6%
6 · 5%
6 · 5%
Activity is led by (17% of 133 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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