Santa FE River Ranch Airport
FA62 · Alachua, Florida · Alachua County · map
Santa FE River Ranch Airport is a private airport owned by Hitchcock and Sons, INC., 8 miles north of Alachua, Florida, 145 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 3,600 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 FA62
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Hitchcock and Sons, INC.
- Elevation
- 145 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
- July 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/S | 3,600 × 200 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Lake City Gateway Airport (17 nm north), Gainesville Regional (18 nm southeast), Keystone Heights Airport (23 nm east), Williston Regional (34 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Lake City Gateway Airport (17 nm north), Gainesville Regional (18 nm southeast), Keystone Heights Airport (23 nm east), Williston Regional (34 nm south).
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 only; pvt use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Alachua from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Alachua, Florida: 12 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter, 1 business jet. 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.
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 Alachua 17 aircraft · 12 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Sullivan Farms LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Holly Factory 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,111 since 1982 · 984 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 21,704 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/FA62.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 November 12, 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.