US-0880 Opa Locka West Airport VFR

  • Name
    Opa Locka West Airport
  • ICAO
    US-0880
  • Type
  • Region
  • Timezone
    3:37 pm (EST)
  • Municipality
    Miami
  • Coordinates
    25° 57′ 8″ N 80° 25′ 8″ E
  • Elevation
    8 ft (2 m MSL)

About Opa Locka West Airport

Opa-locka West Airport (FAA LID: X46) was a county-owned public airport located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the central business district of Miami, a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It covered an area of 420 acres (170 ha) which contained two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 measuring 3,000 x 60 ft (914 x 18 m) and 18/36 measuring 3,000 x 60 ft (914 x 18 m).

The airport opened in 1970 and was designed to relieve congestion at the nearby Opa-locka Airport. There was no public access to the airfield by land, and it served as a remote area for touch-and-go training. Light twin-engine aircraft such as the Cessna 310 were the largest used at this airport. There were no storage facilities and no aircraft based at the airport. Expansion was limited due to the presence of wetlands. The airport had 12,100 general aviation aircraft operations in the year 2002, an average of 33 per day.

The airport was badly damaged by Hurricane Wilma in October 2005. Miami-Dade County announced that the airport would be decommissioned in June 2006.

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