Hernando County Airport

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Coordinates: 28°28′25″N 082°27′20″W / 28.47361, -82.45556

Hernando County Airport
31 December 1998
IATA: none – ICAO: KBKV – FAA: BKV
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Hernando County
Location		Brooksville, Florida
Elevation AMSL		76 ft / 23 m
Website		www.co.hernando.fl.us/Airport
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
3/21	5,015	1,529	Concrete
9/27	7,002	2,134	Concrete
Statistics (2001)
Aircraft operations			49,000
Based aircraft			108
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Hernando County Airport (ICAO: KBKV, FAA LID: BKV) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Brooksville, a city in Hernando County, Florida, United States. It is owned by Hernando County^[1] and is 45 miles north of Tampa. While having consistent growth in its traffic rate, the Hernando County Airport does not yet serve the public through commercial airlines but does have charter and executive service.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Hernando County Airport is assigned BKV by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

1 History
2 National Guard
3 Facilities and aircraft
4 See Also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Hernando County Airport is a former World War II military airfield. The Brooksville Army Air Field was used as an auxiliary airfield of MacDill Field and Drew Field (now Tampa International Airport). The field opened in November 1942, as the 1st Bomb Squadron began its operations. B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberators were common aircraft on the field, and used as training.

In late 1945, the field was reported to the War Assets Administration (WAA) as being in surplus. Between April 1946 and June 1947, the WAA sold or moved the on-site equipment to locations where they could be better utilized. The land and left-over facilities were sold to the city of Brooksville by quitclaim deeds. The deeds contained clauses that limited the property to be used for a public airport only. Some of these clauses have since been modified by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Within a few years, the city of Brooksville transferred the property to Hernando County, who remains the current owner. Two small sections of the land have been sold to private interests and the rest is currently used by the county for an airport, 155-acre industrial park, prison, land rentals, and tree farming.^[3]

[edit] National Guard

The Hernando County Airport is the home to the Florida National Guard 3rd Battalion 20th Special Forces Charlie Company and the Florida Army National Guard 171st Aviation Battalion.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Hernando County Airport covers an area of 2,498 acres (1,011 ha) which contains two concrete paved runways: 9/27 measuring 7,002 x 150 ft. (2,134 x 46 m) and 3/21 measuring 5,015 x 150 ft. (1,529 x 46 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending November 7, 2001, the airport had 49,000 aircraft operations, an average of 134 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% military and 1% air taxi. There are 108 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single engine, 7% multi-engine, 5% helicopters, 3% ultralights and 2% jet aircraft.^[1]