Pompano Beach Airpark
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Pompano Beach Airpark is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) northeast of the central business district of Pompano Beach
Pompano Beach, Florida
Pompano Beach ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 99,845...

, in Broward County
Broward County, Florida
-2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,623,018 people, 654,445 households, and 411,645 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,346 people per square mile . There were 741,043 housing units at an average density of 615 per square mile...

, Florida, United States. This airport is publicly owned by City of Pompano Beach.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier
Location identifier
A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...

 and IATA
International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...

, Pompano Beach Airpark is assigned PMP by the FAA and PPM by the IATA (which assigned PMP to Pimaga, Papua New Guinea). The airport's ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization , pronounced , , is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth...

 identifier is KPMP.

Facilities and aircraft

Pompano Beach Airpark covers an area of 935 acres (3.8 km²) which contains three runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

s:
  • Runway 6/24: 4001 by 150 ft (1,219.5 by 45.7 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Runway 10/28: 3502 by 100 ft (1,067.4 by 30.5 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Runway 15/33: 4418 by 150 ft (1,346.6 by 45.7 m), Surface: Asphalt


The airport also has an operational air traffic control tower under the FAA Contract Tower Program.

For 12-month period ending July 15, 1999 the airport had 169,722 aircraft operations, an average of 464 per day: 99% general aviation (169,506), <1% air taxi (136) and <1% military (80). There are 158 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single engine (125), 8% multi engine (12), 3% jet aircraft (4) and 11% helicopters (17).

The Goodyear Blimp N2A is based out of Pompano Beach Airpark.

History

Pompano Beach Airport was constructed during World War II as an outlying field (OLF) for Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale
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 navy selected Merle Fogg Airport in Fort Lauderdale to expand into a naval air station for both pilot and enlisted aircrew training in Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers...

, what is now the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport is an international commercial airport located in unincorporated Broward County, Florida, three miles southwest of the central business district of Fort Lauderdale...

. 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 5000 feet (1,524 m) to its current length of 4418 feet (1,346.6 m) 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 1035 acres (4.2 km²). On August 5, 1958, 10 acres (40,468.6 m²) 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 60 acres (242,811.6 m²), 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 10 acres (40,468.6 m²) in the southwestern section of the Air Park Property were purchased by the Pompano Elks Club. These transfers account for the current total 946 acres (3.8 km²) 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, with the Surplus Property Act of 1944 states that any lands conveyed under the act must be used for aviation purposes or ownership reverts back 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.

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