Florida airport comments

This is a decent spot to fly into for Sun n' Fun. It's a bit far away from the Lakeland, but easy to get into and out of so much less hassle. They charged a $4/night parking fee (2008) and a $4.99 service charge for gassing up, on top of the fuel charge.

On Saturday, 12 January, 2008, a Cessna 172 crashed into Old Tampa Bay about 800 feet short of the runway at St Petersburg Clearwater:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20080123X00090&key=1

Kathrinstadt Airport is a private airport located approximately 25 miles southwest of St. Augustine, Florida. Because it is registered with the FAA as a “Private Airport,” access is restricted, and limited to aircraft who receive landing clearance from the airport manager. Kathrinstadt Airport, besides being modeled after a 1920's style aerodrome, is also noted as being the maintenance airfield of Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corporation, an up-and-coming scheduled passenger airline service and aviation center.

Operational specifics are as follows:

Coordinates: Latitude 29° 38' 7" and Longitude 81° 27' 55"

Airport Identifier: 2FA7

Landing Surface: grass (turf)

Runway Length: 700 ft.

Runway Width: 110 ft.

Orientation of Runway: 09-27 (east-west)

Obstructions: trees at both approach ends of runways

Airport Indicators: lighted windsock, lighted segmented circle

Traffic Pattern: right traffic Runway 9 and left traffic Runway 27

Unicom frequency: 122.9

Operations: VFR only

Based Aircraft: 2 aircraft currently based at this airport (1 multi-engine and 1 single-engine)

Facilities: there is one maintenance hangar located at the center/north side of the runways.

Airport Hours: airport is attended 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Security: 24 hour armed security, electric/barbed wire fencing, motion sensing cameras.

Contact information: the airport manager can be contacted via email at Aeromarine.Airways@yahoo.com or by phone at the Aeromarine Office @ 386-325-3534.

Services: general mainenance facilities for Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corp only.

Information about Aeromarine West Indies Airways can be found at: http://aeromarine-airways.com/

Operational warnings: besides being restricted to those aircraft who secure clearance from the airport manager, extreme care must be exercised with regards to operations. Kathrinstadt Airport is to be considered for use by STOL aircraft, aircraft with STOL characteristics, and ultralights only! Also, ONLY experienced airmen are to be granted operational clearance to use Kathrinstadt Airport, and this at the airport manager’s discretion.

The airport manager can be contacted via e-mail at the following:

Kathrinstadt_Airport@yahoo.com

The airport address:

Kathrinstadt Airport

10460 Turpin Ave.

Hastings, Florida. 32145

The airport manager can be reached via Unicom, or by phone at the Aeromarine office:

Unicom frequency: 122.9

Flight office: 386-325-3534

Zoom airlines is adding a non-stop flight from FLL to London (presumably Gatwick LGW) -- it will be the first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight route from the airport in over a decade:

http://www.nbc6.net/travelgetaways/15015103/detail.html

Piper moved here after floods destroyed the original Piper plant in Lock Haven, PA in 1972. There have been some rumours that the company might move to Albuquerque or Oklahoma City:

http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/080108piper.html

There are proposals to allow development as close as 500 ft to one of the runways, despite airport and state objections:

http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2008/080109fl.html

We are a private airport but we are are open to general aviation pilots who call first. The runway is north south direction and the traffic is left hand on runway 36 and right hand on runway 18. The runway is 3900 feet with displaced thresholds on each end. Runway is turf and primary width of 65 feet John Reiss Manager Crosswind Airport

Where I built my Velocity XL-RG

This is where I did most of my flight training.

This has a very nice grass runway, and lots of new hangers. Think there are ($300+ per/month)

I fly in/out some time in my Sport Star (light sport aircraft)

If you looking for your light sport in a Sport Star Aircraft,

check out Triangle Aviation at 8900 Airport Blvd. Leesburg Florida 34788

phone 352-787-3447 Tell them Buddy sent yea!

Parking at the Sheltair got me a big hotel discount.

Cleared US Customs here when returning from the Bahamas. Surprisingly friendly and efficient Customs officers. You have to taxi to the other side of the field for gas/food/parking.

Another one of those airporst many folks wonder, "where did they get that designator from"? Well this is another of those former USAF bases, originally McCoy AFB named after Colonel Michael NW McCoy. Many fly here for Disney World but I always went through here on my way to The Cape or Patrick AFB on comm projects, large and small.