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Airport Fort Myers - Page-Field

Coordinates: 26°3512N 081°5148W / 26.58667, -81.86333

Page Field


6 January 1999


FAA airport diagram
IATA: FMY ICAO: KFMY FAA: FMY
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Lee County Port Authority
Location Fort Myers, Florida
Elevation AMSL 17 ft / 5 m
Website www.FlyLCPA.com/fmy/
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 6,406 1,953 Asphalt
13/31 4,912 1,497 Asphalt
Statistics (1999)
Aircraft operations 94,666
Based aircraft 220
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Page Field (IATA: FMY, ICAO: KFMY, FAA LID: FMY) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Fort Myers, a city in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is owned by the Lee County Port Authority.[1]

Page Field hosted domestic airline service for Lee County until the opening of Southwest Florida Regional Airport (now Southwest Florida International Airport) in 1983. The former terminal building now serves as an office building for law enforcement.

Contents

Facilities and aircraft

Page Field covers an area of 670 acres (271 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 6,406 x 150 ft (1,953 x 46 m) and 13/31 measuring 4,912 x 150 ft (1,497 x 46 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 26, 1999, the airport had 94,666 aircraft operations, an average of 259 per day: 95% general aviation, 5% air taxi and <1% military. There are 220 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, 2% helicopter and 1% jet. [1]

History

Constructed in 1927 as a civilian airport, Page Field was appropriated by the War Department at the beginning of World War II. Renamed Fort Myers Army Air Field, it was used by the United States Army Air Force's Third Air Force for both antisubmarine patrols and conventional bomber training in the B-24 Liberator.[2] The facility was returned to the civilian control of the State of Florida and then Lee County shortly following the end of World War II.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for FMY (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93d_Air-Ground_Operations_Wing

External links

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