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Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

32.11080°N
-84.18890°W
ARR / DAY
4
▼ 3.1%
DEP / DAY
4
▲ 15.4%

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 4 arrivals and 4 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

17h ago
Temp
79°F
Wind
5 kts
120°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KACJ 040455Z AUTO 12005KT 10SM CLR 26/26 A2997 RMK AO2 T02600260 403430222 $

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

05
44% of ops
115 land · 69 TO
23
40% of ops
104 land · 98 TO
27
7% of ops
18 land · 8 TO
28
4% of ops
10 land · 8 TO
09
3% of ops
9 land · 3 TO
10
2% of ops
5 land · 1 TO
Runway 05 carries 44% of operations (115 landings, 69 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

05 115 landings
UA 5%
23 104 landings
UA 5%
27 18 landings
UA 6%
28 10 landings
UA 10%
09 9 landings
UA 33%
10 5 landings
UA 40%
Approaches to 05 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 115 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 · 195 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 4pm
Day vs night
75%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 6.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (5.0 vs 7.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

59 · 35%
20 · 12%
15 · 9%
15 · 9%
10 · 6%
7 · 4%
Activity is led by (35% of 171 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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