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Airport in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport
(
FAA
LID
:
X51
) is a county-owned public-use
airport
in
unincorporated
Miami-Dade County
,
Florida
,
United States
,
[2]
located 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the
central business district
of
Homestead
.
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History
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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
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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).
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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.
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Homestead is also the home of Skydive Miami.
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FBO
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Locations and events in italics are/were in
unincorporated areas
in proximity to Homestead, and have Homestead postal addresses and/or are in proximity.
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