FAA PUBLIC EXPORT · 355,556 REPORTSVOLUNTARY REPORTING · NOT A RISK SCORESNAPSHOT 16 SEP 2026
RUNWAYWILDLIFETHE REPORTED STRIKE RECORD
KVPS / VPSFLORIDA

AIRPORT REPORT LOG

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport (KVPS) has 111 filed FAA wildlife-strike reports from 2000-01-15 through 2026-07-12; 58 were filed during 2021–2025, and damage was indicated in 5.4% of all reports.

Source: FAA National Wildlife Strike Database · Voluntary-report cohort · Snapshot September 16, 2026

All reports1111990–export
2021–2025 reports58five complete years
Reported damage5.4%conditional on reports
Covered traffic rate146.0reports / 100k covered departures
01 / READ THE RECORD

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: 58 reports in 2021–2025

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport filed 58 reports in 2021–2025, which was 25 more than the 33 reports filed in 2016–2020.

Damage-indicated reports65.4% of reports
Engine-ingestion reports1311.7% of reports
Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level
Reported inflation-adjusted cost$271Konly when cost was supplied
02 / YEAR LOG

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: 2016–2025 reporting record

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has 9 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 91 filed reports in the annual series.

20161 reports · 0.0% damage
201811 reports · 9.1% damage
201913 reports · 7.7% damage
20208 reports · 12.5% damage
202117 reports · 5.9% damage
20229 reports · 11.1% damage
20238 reports · 0.0% damage
202410 reports · 0.0% damage
202514 reports · 0.0% damage
03 / SEASON

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: reports by month

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has 58 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan0
Feb1
Mar2
Apr5
May5
Jun2
Jul5
Aug7
Sep11
Oct17
Nov1
Dec2

Month counts use 2021–2025 reports.

04 / FLIGHT PHASE

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: reports by flight phase

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has 58 filed reports from 2021–2025 with a supplied flight phase in the FAA record.

Approach32 · 0.0% damage
Landing Roll14 · 7.1% damage
Take-off Run6 · 0.0% damage
Climb4 · 0.0% damage
Descent1 · 0.0% damage
Departure1 · 100.0% damage

Phase counts use 2021–2025 reports with a supplied phase.

05 / IDENTIFIED WILDLIFE

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: named wildlife

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has no named-wildlife combination with enough filed reports to meet the publication threshold.

No named species combination met the publication threshold.

All 0 published wildlife combinations
06 / AIRCRAFT

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: aircraft types in filed reports

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has 2 published aircraft-type combinations representing 37 filed reports that met the combination-page threshold.

All 2 published aircraft combinations
A-320 · 20A-319 · 17
07 / FL

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport: other covered airports in Florida

Eglin Air Force Base/Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has 46 other published airport profiles in Florida; 8 appear in this state-context list.

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