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KOPF Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport VFR

  • Name
    Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    KOPF / OPF / KOPF
  • Type
  • Region
  • Timezone
    6:02 pm (EST)
  • Municipality
    Miami
  • Coordinates
    25° 54′ 25″ N 80° 16′ 42″ E
  • Elevation
    8 ft (2 m MSL)

About Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport

Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (IATA: OPF, ICAO: KOPF, FAA LID: OPF) (formerly Opa-locka Airport and Opa-locka Executive Airport until 2014) is a joint civil-military airport located in Miami-Dade County, Florida 11 mi (18 km) north of downtown Miami. Part of the airport is in the city limits of Opa-locka. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation reliever airport.

The FAA-contract control tower is staffed from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM. The airport has four fixed-base operators. It is owned by Miami-Dade County and operated by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.

The sole remaining military activity at the airport is Coast Guard Air Station Miami, operating from federal property not deeded to the county. It hosts EADS HC-144 Ocean Sentry turboprops; and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters for coastal patrol, deployment aboard medium endurance and high endurance coast guard cutters, and air-sea rescue. Much of CGAS Miami's facilities were built during World War II as part of Naval Air Station Miami.

DayJet provided on-demand jet air charter services to 44 airports in 5 states; it filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 2008.

The airport is served by several cargo and charter airlines that use the U.S. customs facility.

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