Ocala Intl-Jim Taylor Field
OCF · KOCF · Ocala, Florida · Marion County · map
Ocala Intl-Jim Taylor Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Ocala, 4 miles west of Ocala, Florida, 90 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 7,468 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
Weather right now KOCF · observed 4:08 pm EDT (20:08 UTC), 27 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a few clouds at 800 feet, a broken layer at 11,000 feet
- Weather: light rain
- Temperature 75°F (24°C), dew point 75°F (24°C)
- Altimeter 29.90 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
SPECI KOCF 062008Z 00000KT 10SM -RA FEW008 BKN110 24/24 A2990 RMK AO2 P0001
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA OCF · ICAO KOCF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Ocala
- Elevation
- 90 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1961
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 7,468 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 3,010 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 160 ft, 6,558 ft available for landing, trees 60 ft high 2,600 ft from the end
- Runway 36: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 560 ft, 6,351 ft available for landing, tree 46 ft high 2,530 ft from the end
- Runway 08: trees 50 ft high 1,205 ft from the end
- Runway 26: power line 25 ft high 1,045 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.25 | Ocala |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Ocf and aWOS-3PT | 128.125 | Ocala |
| Ground | 121.4 | Ocala |
| Approach and departure | 118.6 | Ocala |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 352-237-8525.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Ocala from the FAA register
410 aircraft are registered to owners in Ocala, Florida: 338 piston singles, 21 piston twins, 15 helicopters, 11 turboprops, 11 business jets. 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 · 31 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
- Index B upon request; closed to air carrier operations with more than 30 passenger seats except prior permission required - amgr.
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 36; PAPI runway 18 and 36; high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Fee for air carrier operations only.
- Runway 08/26 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Calm wind runway.
- Aircraft departure runway 18 mntn runway hdg to 800 feet above ground level or until rchg end of runway whichever ocrs ltr bfr making left turns.
- Taxiway A1, A8, A9 and A12 east of taxiway a; taxiway a north of taxiway A2; closed to air carrier.
- Custom service unavailable.
- Surface conditions not rprtd 1700-0700L.
- Taxiway A1 rstrd to aircraft with wingspan 60 feet or less.
- Object 2.5 feet above ground level located 39 feet north of taxiway A1 centerline.
- Runway 36 rthl not standard.
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.