Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport

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. It has two asphalt paved runways: 18/36 is 3,999 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m) and 10/28 is 3,000 by 75 feet (913 x 23 m). It also has one turf runway: 9U/27U is 2,500 by 150 feet (762 x 46 m).[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

Under the current airport manager, The Homestead General Aviation Airport has degraded both physically and operationally. Some examples of this include an automated weather system which has been mostly inoperable, poor maintenance of paved and unpaved areas, county vehicles driven recklessly in movement areas, and poor to no communication internally as well as among the local aviation community.

There is extensive glider activity due to the presence of Miami Gliders, a glider flight school, operating out of runway 9 turf.[1] Homestead is also the home of Skydive Miami. A dropzone that caters specifically to tandem only skydiving from 8000ft. Significantly lower than the industry standard 10,500.

Extensive student training and lack of a tower and organization makes this airport a challenging one to fly in and out of.

• Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport page
• FAA Terminal Procedures for X51, effective January 28, 2021

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for X51
  • AirNav airport information for X51
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for X51

FBO

Runways