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.