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,[2] located 4.6 miles (7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Homestead.

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

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.

[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 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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