Rutten Airstrip Airport
FD55 · Havana, Florida · Gadsden County · map
Rutten Airstrip Airport is a private airport, 4 miles northeast of Havana, Florida, 260 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,190 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 FD55
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 260 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,190 × 100 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: Tallahassee International (17 nm south), Decatur County Industrial Air Park (22 nm northwest), Thomasville Regional (28 nm northeast), Camilla-Mitchell County (33 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Quincy Municipal (11 nm southwest), Tallahassee International (17 nm south), Cairo-Grady County (17 nm northeast), Decatur County Industrial Air Park (22 nm northwest).
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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Runway slopes uphill east to west.
- Land west, takeoff east.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Havana from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Havana, Florida: 12 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Havana Aero Club LLC 1 aircraft · Havana, 4 miles away
- Quincy Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Havana, 4 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
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 Havana 16 aircraft · 12 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Havana Aero Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Quincy Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 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 21,711 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/FD55.json.
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 27, 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.