North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport

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North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport
IATA: n/a - ICAO: n/a - FAA: F45
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Palm Beach County Airports Department
Serves		Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Elevation AMSL		22 ft (6.7 m)
Coordinates		26°50′39.69″N, 80°13′16.78″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
8R/26L	4,300	1,311	Asphalt
13/31	4,300	1,311	Asphalt
8L/26R	3,700	1,128	Grass/Gravel

North Palm Beach County Airport (FAA LID: F45) is an uncontrolled general aviation airport located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 12 miles northwest of West Palm Beach, Florida off the Bee Line Highway. The airport is owned by Palm Beach County and operated by the Palm Beach County Airports Department. The airport is more commonly referred to as North County Airport.

The field is in proximity to, and shares services with, William P. Gwinn Airport (FAA LID: 06FA) (more commonly referred to as Gwinn Airfield) which is owned by United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and operated by its Sikorsky Aircraft business unit. Due to its proximity to the Sikorsky test grounds, North County is often used to test ILS approaches on experimental or prototype helicopters such as the RAH-66 Comanche and the S-92.

There are two asphalt runways (8R/26L and 13/31) as well as one grass runway (8L/26R) and there are two active helicopter landing pads.

1 Fixed Base Operators (FBO)
2 Flight Schools (Rotary Wing)
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Fixed Base Operators (FBO)

The airport has one fixed base operator, Landmark Aviation [1].

[edit] Flight Schools (Rotary Wing)

North County is home to Ocean Helicopters [2] and Cloud 9 Helicopters [3], both of which maintain a fleet of Robinson helicopters and both of which are FAA Certified Part 141 Flight Schools.