Keystone Heights Airport
42J · Keystone Heights, Florida · Clay County · map
Keystone Heights Airport is a public-use airport owned by Keystone Airport Authority, 3 miles north of Keystone Heights, Florida, 196 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 5,046 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 42J
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Keystone Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 196 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,046 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 11/29 | 4,899 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 49 ft high 1,840 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 39 ft high 1,175 ft from the end
- Runway 11: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 40 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
- Runway 29: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 48 ft high 1,160 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure 10000 feet and below | 118.175 | |
| 42J AWOS-3 | 124.275 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 352-473-8273.
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Aircraft registered in Keystone Heights from the FAA register
19 aircraft are registered to owners in Keystone Heights, Florida: 17 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 since 1982, 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Animals on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Sunset to sunrise activate runway end identifier lights runway 05, 23, and 11; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 and 11/29 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI operates continuously.
- Rstrd area 2903A 1.5 NM runway 23 end. Fly R traffic to avoid.
- Runways 11/29 rstrd by amgr to aircraft 12500 pounds gross weight or less.
- Runway 5/23 weight bearing capacity 2S-155.
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.