Ruckel Airport
FL17 · Niceville, Florida · Okaloosa County · map
Ruckel Airport is a private airport owned by Ruckel Properties, INC., 3 miles east of Niceville, Florida, 67 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,300 feet of grass. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FL17
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Ruckel Properties, INC.
- Elevation
- 67 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,300 × 75 ft | Grass | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern
Aircraft registered in Niceville from the FAA register
80 aircraft are registered to owners in Niceville, Florida: 69 piston singles, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 2 drones. 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 · 9 since 1982, 3 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
- VFR only; pvt use.
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.