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This is a list of airports in Florida (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The airport serves the Southwest Florida region, including the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Naples-Marco Island, and Punta Gorda metropolitan areas, and is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry. It currently is the second-busiest single-runway airport in the United States, after San Diego International Airport, California. [3]
Buckingham Field [2] (FAA LID: FL59) is a private-use airport located seven nautical miles (13 km) east of the central business district of Fort Myers, in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is privately owned by the Lee County Mosquito Control District. [1] The Buckingham Air Park has deeded access to the airport. [3]
The company is noted for its role in the development of Cape Coral, and pioneering the sales method of installment land purchases. In the late 1960s, GALC sold 173,000 mi (278,000 km) of swampland, dubbed Golden Gate Estates, to about 40,000 buyers. Many buyers bought plots that were submerged underwater.
Coral Creek Airport [1] (FAA LID: FA54) is a private-use airport located 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Boca Grande, a community on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida, United States. The airport itself is located in Placida in Charlotte County (specifically, on the Cape Haze Peninsula ), about a mile north of the separately-owned Coral Creek Club.
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport covers an area of 24,960 acres (39.0 sq mi; 101.0 km 2), which contains one asphalt paved runway (9/27) measuring 10,499 × 150 ft (3,200 × 46 m). For the year ending October 10, 2018, the airport had 14,468 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 39 per day. [1]
The airport had scheduled passenger airline service starting in 1971 operated by Ocean Reef Airways, a division of Montauk Caribbean Airlines. The airline provided on demand service to Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport along with charter service. The airline was owned and operated by Bob King and ...
The T-37 is near the former air base main gate, now the airport entrance, and The Museum Room in the airport's main terminal commemorates the airport's military heritage. From 1960 through 1967 the City of Bartow again managed the airport and the aviation facilities were again leased to a fixed-base operator.