Shady Bend Airport
9FL5 · Bell, Florida · Gilchrist County · map
Shady Bend Airport is a private airport owned by Shady Bend Airpark LLC, 5 miles northwest of Bell, Florida, 25 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, 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 9FL5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Shady Bend Airpark LLC
- Elevation
- 25 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
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1980
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,000 × 100 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Cross City Airport (14 nm southwest), Lake City Gateway Airport (29 nm northeast), Suwannee County (30 nm north), Gainesville Regional (35 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Cross City Airport (14 nm southwest), Lake City Gateway Airport (29 nm northeast), Suwannee County (30 nm north), Gainesville Regional (35 nm east).
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
- VFR; private use only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Bell from the FAA register
23 aircraft are registered to owners in Bell, Florida: 20 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 drone. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
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 Bell 23 aircraft · 20 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 drones
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 982 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 21,709 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/9FL5.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 29, 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.