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Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

32.11080°N
-84.18890°W
ARR / DAY
5
▲ 0.0%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 100.0%

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 6,021 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11h ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
3 kts
290°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KACJ 150815Z AUTO 29003KT 10SM OVC270 24/24 A3011 RMK AO2 T02370237 $

Runways

2 installed

6,021 FT MAX
05/23
6,021 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
09/27
3,787 ft × 75
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

23
54% of ops
105 land · 84 TO
05
26% of ops
50 land · 24 TO
27
9% of ops
18 land · 12 TO
09
5% of ops
10 land · 0 TO
28
4% of ops
8 land · 5 TO
10
1% of ops
2 land · 0 TO
Runway 23 carries 54% of operations (105 landings, 84 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

23 105 landings
UA 7%
05 50 landings
UA 10%
27 18 landings
UA 17%
09 10 landings
UA 0%
28 8 landings
UA 25%
10 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 23 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 105 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
5.4
flights/day · 162 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 4pm
Day vs night
81%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 5.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (4.6 vs 6.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

32 · 23%
19 · 14%
15 · 11%
10 · 7%
8 · 6%
8 · 6%
Activity is led by (23% of 139 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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