Sanders Ranch Airport
39FA · Melrose, Florida · Putnam County · map
Sanders Ranch Airport is a private airport, 4 miles southeast of Melrose, Florida, 150 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 3,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 39FA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 150 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 3,000 × 100 ft | Grass |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Keystone Heights Airport (11 nm north), Gainesville Regional (14 nm west), Palatka Muni/Lt Kay Larkin Field (17 nm east), Williston Regional (30 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Keystone Heights Airport (11 nm north), Gainesville Regional (14 nm west), Palatka Muni/Lt Kay Larkin Field (17 nm east), Williston Regional (30 nm southwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Florida · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- E111 VFR; personal use only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Melrose from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Melrose, Florida: 9 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- College of Missionary Aviation INC 5 aircraft · Keystone Heights, 13 miles away College of Missionary Aviation is a flight school in Waldo, Florida that trains high school graduates to become missionary pilots and aircraft mechanics.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Melrose 9 aircraft · 9 piston singles
- Taildragger Hq LLC 2 aircraft in town
- College of Missionary Aviation INC 5 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 983 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Florida 128 landing places
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/39FA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.