Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport

Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (FAA LID: X51) is a county-owned public-use airport in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Homestead.[1]

"Homestead Airport" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Homestead Air Reserve Base.
Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerMiami-Dade County
OperatorMiami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD)
ServesHomestead, Florida
LocationMiami-Dade County, Florida
Elevation AMSL9 ft / 3 m
Coordinates25°30′2″N 80°33′20″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18/36 3,999 1,219 Asphalt
10/28 3,000 913 Asphalt
9U/27U 2,500 762 Turf
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations82,086
Based aircraft82

History

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).[1]


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


Under the current airport manager, The Homestead General Aviation Airport has degraded both physically and operationally. Some examples of this include an automated weather system which has been mostly inoperable, poor maintenance of paved and unpaved areas, county vehicles driven recklessly in movement areas, and poor to no communication internally as well as among the local aviation community.


There is extensive glider activity due to the presence of Miami Gliders, a glider flight school, operating out of runway 9 turf.[1] Homestead is also the home of Skydive Miami. A dropzone that caters specifically to tandem only skydiving from 8000ft. Significantly lower than the industry standard 10,500.


Extensive student training and lack of a tower and organization makes this airport a challenging one to fly in and out of.

References
  1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for X51 PDF, effective 2008-07-31.
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Runways


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