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
- 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
- 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 |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR; private use only.
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.