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Winter Haven Regional Airport - Gilbert Field

28.06290°N

-81.75330°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

14h ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

5 kts

150°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

SPECI KGIF 032203Z AUTO 15005KT 10SM TS SCT026 BKN041 OVC060 28/25 A2995 RMK AO1 LTG DSNT ALQDS TSB2157 T02780250

Runways

2 installed

5,006 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

33% of ops

507 land · 99 TO

26% of ops

402 land · 132 TO

16% of ops

238 land · 109 TO

13% of ops

201 land · 115 TO

12% of ops

178 land · 62 TO

Runway 11 carries 33% of operations (507 landings, 99 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

11 507 landings

UA 9%

23 402 landings

UA 5%

5 238 landings

UA 4%

05 201 landings

UA 4%

29 178 landings

UA 5%

Approaches to 11 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (45 UA events from 507 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

46.6

flights/day · 1,398 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 12pm · 3pm

Day vs night

85%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 46.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (37.1 vs 52.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (49% of 1,181 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
APCH	119.900	—
APCH	120.650	—
APCH	290.300	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
ASOS	133.675	—
OTHER	121.725	—
APT REMA	121.725	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMA
Mag var:: 4° W
Fuel:: 100LL, MOGAS

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

airbound

5/23/2011

GIF - Winter Haven - Excellent Flight School (Tailwheelsetc)

Awesome experience with primary training. Intense and very rewarding. Family like environment.

moski

4/13/2008

Sun n' Fun Spot

This is a decent spot to fly into for Sun n' Fun. It's a bit far away from the Lakeland, but easy to get into and out of so much less hassle. They charged a $4/night parking fee (2008) and a $4.99 service charge for gassing up, on top of the fuel charge.

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