Wakulla County Airport is a county-owned, public-use

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Wakulla County, Florida Wakulla County is a county located in the Big Bend region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,764. Its county seat is Crawfordville. Wakulla County is part of the Tallahassee, ...

, United States. It is located three

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s (6 km) south of the

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. This

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airport is open to the public, although pilots are required to call ahead to be allowed ground access.

Facilities and aircraft

Wakulla County Airport covers an area of 15

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s (6 ha) at an

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of 11 feet (3 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 18/36 with a

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surface measuring 2,590 by 70 feet (789 x 21 m). For the 12-month period ending March 26, 2010, the airport had 5,475

aircraft operations, an average of 15 per day. At that time there were 10 aircraft based at this airport: 90% single-

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and 10%

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. In January 2021 the Wakulla County Board of County Commissioners voted to support the establishment of an airport authority to operate the airport; an earlier attempt to establish an airport authority in 2020 failed.

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