Pompano Beach Airpark is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) northeast of the central business district of

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, Florida, United States. This airport is publicly owned by the City of Pompano Beach. This airport is assigned a three-letter

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of PMP by the

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, but the

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is PPM (the IATA assigned PMP to Pimaga in

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). The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) airport code is KPMP.

History

Pompano Beach Airport was constructed during World War II as an

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(NOLF) for

Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale was an airfield of the United States Navy just outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1942, the U.S. Navy selected Merle Fogg Airport in Fort Lauderdale to expand into a naval air station for both pilot and enlist ...

, what is now the

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. On August 29, 1947, the City of Pompano Beach obtained the Airport under the Surplus Property Act of 1944 and renamed it Pompano Beach Air Park, due to its intent to limit the airport's usage to general aviation. For the same reason, the City shortened Runway 15–33 from its original length of to its current length of in 1971. Additional lands surrounding the air park, including land along Copans Road and the Florida East Coast Railway tracks to the west of the air park, were transferred to the City on June 24, 1948, bringing the total acreage at the air park to . On August 5, 1958, of air park property were released to the Broward County School Board for the construction of Pompano Beach Elementary School. The County received 9 more acres on September 18, 1967. On March 8, 1958, the City sold , located in the northeast corner of the air park property, for development of the Pompano Square Mall. The final transfer of air park property occurred in 1981 when in the southwestern section of the air park property were purchased by the Pompano Elks Club. These transfers account for the current total of the air park. Pompano Beach Air Park is owned by the City of Pompano Beach. The air park is a Surplus Property Act airport. The Surplus Property Act of 1944 states that any lands conveyed under the act must be used for aviation purposes or ownership reverts to the FAA. The FAA can, however, release excess portions of the property for non-aviation purposes, and any proceeds from the sale of excess property must be used to support airport growth and development under the stipulations of the Surplus Property Act.

Facilities and aircraft

Pompano Beach Airpark covers an area of which contains three

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s: * Runway 6/24: , surface: asphalt * Runway 10/28: , surface: asphalt * Runway 15/33: , surface: asphalt The airport also has an operational air traffic control tower under the FAA Contract Tower Program. For 12-month period ending May 26, 2017 the airport had 169,722 aircraft operations, an average of 465 per day: 99.9% general aviation (169,506), <1% air taxi (136) and <1% military (80). There were at the time 131 aircraft based at this airport: 71% single engine (125), 17% multi engine (12), 4% jet aircraft (4) and 8% helicopter (17). The Goodyear Blimp ''Spirit of Innovation'' is based out of Pompano Beach Airpark.

Fixed-base operators

* Sheltair Aviation Services

Aviation schools

* Dare to Dream Aviation - training pilots and instructors since 2001 * Orange Wings Aviation Academy * Florida Aviation Academy * Learn to Fly Center * American Flyers * Tailwheel Academy

Charter services

* SkymaxSkymax
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References

External links

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