DeLand Municipal Airport

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Coordinates: 29°04′01″N 081°17′02″W / 29.06694, -81.28389

DeLand Municipal Airport Sidney H. Taylor Field
IATA: none – ICAO: KDED – FAA: DED
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of DeLand
Serves		DeLand, Florida
Elevation AMSL		79 ft / 24 m
Website		www.deland.org/airport/
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	6,000	1,829	Asphalt
5/23	4,300	1,311	Asphalt
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations			77,710
Based aircraft			162
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

DeLand Municipal Airport (ICAO: KDED, FAA LID: DED), also known as Sidney H. Taylor Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district of DeLand, a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, DeLand Municipal Airport is assigned DED by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned DED to Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, India).^[2]^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

DeLand Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,289 acres (522 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 12/30 measuring 6,000 x 100 ft. (1,829 x 30 m) and 5/23: 4,300 x 75 ft. (1,311 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 7, 2002, the airport had 77,710 aircraft operations, an average of 212 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 162 aircraft based at this airport: 70% single-engine, 23% multi-engine, 2% jet, 4% helicopter and 1% ultralight.^[1]