Jekyll Island Airport
09J · Jekyll Island, Georgia · Glynn County · map
Jekyll Island Airport is a public-use airport owned by Jekyll Island Authority, 6 miles southeast of Jekyll Island, Georgia, 11 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,715 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 09J
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Jekyll Island Authority
- Elevation
- 11 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,715 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, 3,575 ft available for landing
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, 3,575 ft available for landing, trees 54 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Brunswick and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.75 |
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Aircraft registered in Jekyll Island from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Jekyll Island, Georgia: 6 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Transition violations - 55 feet trees east of runway and 40 feet trees west of runway.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 and PAPI runway 18 and runway 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Jekyll Island authority.
- Rotating beacon is located on top of a water tank 1/2 - 1 mile northeast of runway 18 in a swampy area.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of of airport.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.