Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport

The airport was renamed from "Homestead General Aviation Airport" to "Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport" in December 2014 by the Miami-Dade County Commission.

Facilities and aircraft

Homestead General Aviation Airport covers an area of 960 acres (390 ha) at an elevation of 9 feet (2.7 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 18/36 is 3,999 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m) and 10/28 is 3,000 by 75 feet (913 x 23 m). It also has one turf runway: 9U/27U is 2,500 by 150 feet (762 x 46 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 18, 2002, the airport had 72,084 aircraft operations, an average of 197 per day: 70% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 64 aircraft based at this airport: 66% single-engine, 13% multi-engine, 19% ultralight, 3% helicopter and 43% glider

There is extensive glider activity due to the presence of Miami Gliders, a glider flight school, operating out of runway 9 turf. Homestead is also the home of Skydive Miami.

References

^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for X51 PDF, effective 2008-07-31.
"2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Miami-Dade County, FL" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 80 (PDF p. 81/154). Retrieved 2022-08-13. Homestead General Aviation Arprt

External links

Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport page
FAA Terminal Procedures for X51, effective November 28, 2024
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for X51
- AirNav airport information for X51
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for X51

v t e Airports in Florida
Primary	Daytona Beach Destin–Fort Walton Beach Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood Gainesville Jacksonville Key West Melbourne Orlando Miami Northwest Florida Beaches Orlando Orlando Sanford Palm Beach Pensacola Punta Gorda St. Pete–Clearwater Sarasota–Bradenton Southwest Florida Tallahassee Tampa Vero Beach
Reliever	Avon Park Executive Boca Raton Clearwater DeLand–Taylor Fort Lauderdale Executive Fort Myers Page Herlong Jacksonville Executive Kissimmee Gateway Knight Lakeland Linder Lantana (Palm Beach Country) Miami Executive Naples Municipal New Smyrna Beach North Palm Beach North Perry Opa Locka Orlando Executive Ormond Beach Tampa Executive Venice Municipal Whitted
General	Airglades Apalachicola Arcadia Bartow Executive Belle Glade Brooksville–Tampa Bay Calhoun County Cross City Crystal River Dade-Collier DeFuniak Springs Destin Executive Dunn Dunnellon–Marion County Everglades Fernandina Beach Flagler Hilliard Homestead Immokalee Inverness Jacksonville Cecil Keystone Heights LaBelle Lake City Gateway Lake Wales Leesburg Lewis-Cedar Key Marathon Marco Island Marianna Merritt Island Miami Seaplane Northeast Florida Ocala-Taylor Okeechobee County Pahokee Palatka–Larkin Perry–Foley Plant City Pompano Beach Prince-Santa Rosa Quincy-Gadsden County St. Lucie County Sebastian Sebring Sikes-Crestview Space Coast Suwannee County Tri-County Umatilla Valkaria Wauchula Williston Winter Haven Witham at Stuart Zephyrhills
Public use	Carrabelle-Thompson Fort Walton Beach Jack Browns Massey Ranch Orlando Apopka South Lakeland Tavares Wakulla County
Private use	Ames Buckingham Coral Creek Gardner Hidden Lake Jumbolair Kathrinstadt Ocean Reef Club Osborn Ridge Landing Sandy Creek NASA Shuttle Landing Facility Spruce Creek Wellington
Military	Avon Park AFR Cape Canaveral SFS Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater (at St. Petersburg-Clearwater IAP) Coast Guard Air Station Miami (at Opa Locka Airport) Duke Field Eglin AFB Homestead ARB Hurlburt Field Jacksonville Air National Guard Base (at Jacksonville IAP) NAS Jacksonville (Towers Field) NAS Key West MacDill AFB NS Mayport (McDonald Field) Patrick SFB NAS Pensacola (Sherman Field) Tyndall AFB NAS Whiting Field North Field South Field NOLF Choctaw NOLF Santa Rosa NOLF Saufley NOLF Spencer
Defunct	All-American Bushnell AAF NAS DeLand (now DeLand-Taylor) Disney Drew Field (now Tampa IAP) Epcot Jacksonville–Imeson McCoy AFB (now Orlando IAP) Naval Air Station Cecil Field (now Cecil Airport) NAAS Corry Field NAS Ellyson Field NAS Pensacola - Chevalier Field Naval Air Station Sanford (now Orlando-Sanford IAP) NOLF Holley Opa-locka West Panama City–Bay County NAS Richmond Tallahassee Commercial Tampa Bay Executive

v t e Homestead, Florida
Locations and events in italics are/were in unincorporated areas in proximity to Homestead, and have Homestead postal addresses and/or are in proximity.
Geography
Areas	Homestead Historic Downtown District
Education
Primary and secondary schools	Miami-Dade County Public Schools Homestead SHS South Dade SHS
Other education	Miami Dade College (Homestead Campus) Miami-Dade Public Library System
Other
Landmarks	Homestead–Miami Speedway Homestead Sports Complex Homestead Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Dade Correctional Institution Homestead Air Reserve Base (in Homestead Base) Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport
History	Death of Darren Rainey (occurred at Dade CI)

Categories:

Misplaced Pages