Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (IATA: OPF , ICAO: KOPF , FAA LID: OPF Opa-locka Airport and Opa-locka Executive Airport until 2014) are in Miami-Dade County, Florida 11 miles north of downtown Miami. Part of the airport is in the city limits of Opa-locka. The National Plan for the Integrated Airport System for 2011-2015 calls it the general aviation airport reliever.
The FAA contract control tower is manned from 07:00 to 23:00. The airport has four fixed-base operators. Owned by Miami-Dade County and operated by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.
The only remaining military activity at the airport was the Miami Coast Guard Air Station, operating from a federal property not handed over to the county. It hosts EADS HC-144 Ocean Sentry turboprops; and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters for coastal patrols, deployment on medium endurance vessels and high end rescue cutters, and sea-air rescue. Many of the Miami CGAS facilities were built during World War II as part of Miami's Naval Air Station .
DayJet provides on-demand jet air flight services to 44 airports in 5 states; it was filed for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy in 2008.
The airport is served by several cargo and charter airlines using US customs facilities. Maintenance and modification of aircraft up to the size of Boeing 747 is done by several airlines.
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Histori
Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss retired from aircraft and manufacturing development in 1920 and became a real estate developer in Florida. In 1926, he founded the town of Opa-locka, calling it Opa-tisha-woka-locka (quickly abbreviated as Opa-locka), the original American name translated into a highland in the north of a small river with a camping ground.
In late 1925, he moved the Florida Aviation Camp from Hialeah to the western parcel of Opa-locka. This small airfield is surrounded by Opa-locka Golf Course. In 1929, he transferred land to the City of Miami, which established the World War I surplus hangar from Key West. The field was known as Hangar Blimp City. The following year, Goodyear Blimp began operating from this hangar.
In 1928, Curtiss made a separate donation to the land two miles south of Opa-locka for Miami's first Municipal Airport. Curtiss Aviation School then moved from Biscayne Bay to this airport. The wider area east of the Miami Municipal Airport was developed in the 1930s as the All-American Airport . After Curtiss died in 1930, his estate moved a parcel of land to the north of the golf course and Florida Aviation Camp to the city of Miami. The city then leased it to the United States Navy.
Curtiss has been lobbying for the establishment of Naval Landing Base in Miami since 1928, and this property became Naval Flight Training Base (NRATB), which later became an active installation renamed Naval Air Station Miami. The installation was very active during World War II and saw significant military construction on the main base as well as some additional auxiliary airfields in public areas. Much of this construction still exists today. In-battle training, dive-bombing and torpedo bombing skills occur at various times during base operations. Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber, Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, and F4F Wildcat Grumman fighter are some aircraft based at the facility. In addition to serving as the headquarters for the 7th Navy District, the station supports Navy airborne school, Marine Corps Air Station, a Coast Guard Station, and a small craft training center. The accompanying peak, reached in 1945, comprised of 7,200 officers and men and 3,100 civil servants.
Postwar, reinstatement to previous roles as Navy Installation and Marine Marine Reserve Installation, but retained the Miami NAS and the everyday names of Master Field. Following the departure of the United States Navy, but the retention of the US Marine Corps drifted and flight support units, Master Field became Miami Marine Corps Air Station Miami (MCAS Miami), circa 1955. With the Squadron Marine Marine Reserve and support units for Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida in 1958 and 1959, MCAS Miami was marked for closure and the air station was closed as the Department of Naval installations in 1959. Most of the former military properties were moved to Dade County and Dade County Junior College opened in site in 1961.
In 1962, the remainder of the former Miami Naval Air Station Miami/Marine Corps Air Station Miami property, except for the parts reserved for the Coast Guard of the United States for the establishment of a new coast guard station, was transferred to Dade County and became Opa - Locka Airport. However, the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 caused many more former airborne stations requested by the Department of Defense to be used as additional staging bases for US troop strikes, adding to the naval active duty air force and naval aviation stations in Florida if the crisis caused war. The United States Air Force civil engineer from Tactical Air Command (TAC) arrived at the airport on the afternoon of October 22 and started working all the time. In one instance, TAC civil engineering personnel rehabilitated aging oil, lubricant and lubricating oil (POL) and distribution infrastructure originally built by the Navy in the 1940s, bringing the facility to full operational status in just 3½ days. Improvements in air and other air support are also being implemented to support tactical aircraft operations. However, the crisis through diplomatic means and the airfield was never required to function as an installation of strikes against Soviet and Cuban forces.
In 1965, Coast Guard Air Station Miami moved the aircraft and its operation from the Seaplane Dinner Key installation to Opa-locka Airport, re-establishing the Miami CGAS on site. CGAS Miami continues to operate on site with EADS HC-144A Ocean Sentry fixed wing aircraft and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters.
For the year 1963, Opa-locka is the 42nd busiest civil airport in the country with total operations. In 1964, it was ranked eighteenth, in 1965, the third, and in 1966 and 1967, it was second behind O'Hare. In 1971, it went down to seventeen. In 1979, 551,873 operations were recorded, making it the seventh busiest airport in the country.
According to SebastiÃÆ'¡n MarroquÃnn (born Juan Pablo Escobar), his father Pablo Escobar and cousin Gustavo Gaviria "performed a running exercise to test a hundred kilos of cocaine on a twin-engined Piper Seneca plane.At arrival at Opa Locka Airport, a private airport in the heart of Miami that is used exclusively by rich Americans, unhindered. "Next, he wrote," because they've landed shipments there, for over a year, the Opa Locka Airport in Miami is my father's drug trafficking destination. "
Some 9/11 hijackers train at the airport.
On October 7, 2014, the Miami-Dade District Commission chose to rename the airport to "Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport" as part of a rebranding scheme of all airports in the Miami region to include the name "Miami".
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Facilities
The airport covers 1,880 hectares (761 ha) at an altitude of 8 feet (2 m). It has three runways asphalt: 9L/27R is 8.002 x 150 feet (2,439 x 46 m); 9R/27L is 4,309 x 100 feet (1,313 x 30 m); 12/30 is 6,800 x 150 feet (2.073 x 46 m).
Fire protection provided by the Miami-Dade 25 Fire Assistance Station.
In the year ended May 18, 2010 the airport had 120,749 operations, averaging 330 per day: 90% of general aviation, 6% military, 3% air taxi, and & lt; 1% of airlines. 287 aircraft then based at airport: 42% single engine, 25% multi-engine, jet 24%, 5% helicopter, and 3% military.
Incident
- In 1970, Douglas C-49K N12978 from Air Carrier broke down outside of the economic recovery when it burned.
- On January 21, 1982, Douglas DC-3A N211TA from Tursair, after departing from Opa-locka Airport, was destroyed in an accident at Opa-locka West Airport (X46). The aircraft was on a training flight and the trainee pilot mistakenly handled machine control, causing temporary loss of power. The plane ran from the runway and collided with a tree. Inadequate supervision and failure of the student pilot to release control of the aircraft to the instructor is referred to as contributing to the accident.
- On May 2, 2011, Beech E18S (N18R) crashed shortly after takeoff from the OPF. The pilot was the only person in it and was killed in the accident. The NTSB report mentions maintenance failure as a contribution to the loss of electrical accidents. The plane crashed into the house. In addition to the pilot's death, there were no other injuries.
References
External links
- Opa-locka Executive Airport, official site
- "Opa-locka Executive Airport". Ã, brochure from CFASPP
- Air imagery in February 1999 from USGS National Map
- FAA Airport Chart Ã, (PDF) , effective June 21, 2018
- FAA Terminal Procedure for OPF, valid June 21, 2018
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for OPF
- AirNav airport information for KOPF
- ASN accident history for OPF
- FlightAware airport information and direct flight trackers
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical graphs, Terminal Procedures
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