Roscoe Field
82J · Pensacola, Florida · Escambia County · map
Roscoe Field is a public-use airport owned by Brown Helicopter INC., 7 miles southwest of Pensacola, Florida, 32 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,225 feet of asphalt and grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 82J
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Brown Helicopter INC.
- Elevation
- 32 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,225 × 140 ft | Asphalt and grass, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 280 ft, trees 23 ft high 345 ft from the end
- Runway 36: trees 16 ft high 145 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency. |
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Aircraft registered in Pensacola from the FAA register
507 aircraft are registered to owners in Pensacola, Florida: 257 piston singles, 203 helicopters, 22 piston twins, 9 turboprops, 8 business jets. 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 · 19 since 1982, 1 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.
- Approach and departure north of the airport
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Thomas brown
- 24 hour fuel available.
- Runway lights 200 feet spacing using leds. Runway 18/36 marked with pavers and lights.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to displaced thld.
- 80 feet wrn ptn of runway is grass, 40 feet cntr ptn of runway is asphalt, 20 feet ern ptn is grass.
- Airport lies within 3 NM of nas Pensacola sherman field (npa).
- Frequent flight demonstrations and practice airshows at npa.
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.