Boca Raton Airport

Boca Raton Airport (IATA: BCT, ICAO: KBCT, FAA LID: BCT) is a state-owned public-use airport located two miles (3 km) northwest of the central business district of Boca Raton, a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

[2] Boca Raton Airport covers an area of 214 acres (87 ha) and has one asphalt-paved runway designated 5/23, which measures 6,276 × 150 ft (1,913 × 46 m).

[2] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020, the airport had 81,550 aircraft operations, an average of 223 per day: 93% general aviation, 6% air taxi and <1% military.

Another 85 acres (0.34 km2) were used in the 1950s for a secret project to produce stem rust spores for possible use as a biological agent against wheat production in the Soviet Union.

Philip “Phil” Modder had pushed for Boca Raton, with its growing traffic of corporate jets, to have its own tower.

[citation needed] The airport suffered more than $12 million worth of damage to hangars when Hurricane Wilma passed through the area in October 2005.

[7][8] In 1997, the restored original Aston Martin DB5 "Effects Car" from the James Bond film "Goldfinger" was stolen from a hangar at Boca Raton airport.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility was scheduled to open in 2017 in order to allow Boca Raton Airport to process passengers arriving on international flights.

Boca Raton Airport, March 14, 2014