Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field)

Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field) (KNIP) is a medium airport in Jacksonville, FL. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KNIP or IATA code NIP. It sits in North America.

Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field) is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 9,003-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 9,003 ft (2,744 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field) sits near sea level at 21 ft.

Local operations run on America/New_York. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess inventory for KNIP updates continuously as operators publish new empty legs and one-way repositioning trips. Pricing on each leg is available with a free account, and an inventory alert will email you the moment a leg appears on the route you care about.

Regional fields like KNIP are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Naval Air Station Jacksonville is a large naval air station located approximately eight miles (13 km) south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States.