Venice Municipal Airport

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Coordinates: 27°04′18″N 082°26′25″W / 27.07167, -82.44028

Venice Municipal Airport
31 Dec 1998
IATA: VNC – ICAO: KVNC – FAA: VNC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Venice
Serves		Venice, Florida
Elevation AMSL		18 ft / 5 m
Website		venicegov.com/...
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4/22	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
13/31	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
Statistics (1999)
Aircraft operations			172,835
Based aircraft			230
Sources: airport web site^[1] and FAA^[2]

Venice Municipal Airport (IATA: VNC, ICAO: KVNC, FAA LID: VNC) is a city-owned public-use airport located two miles (3 km) south of the central business district of Venice, a city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States.^[2]

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

[edit] History

The airport was built during the 1940s and served as as a military flight training facility. After World War II, the U.S. government gave the airport to the City of Venice.^[1]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Venice Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,200 acres (486 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 4/22 and 13/31, both measuring 5,000 x 150 ft. (1,524 x 46 m).^[1]^[2]

For the 12-month period ending August 26, 1999, the airport had 172,835 aircraft operations, an average of 473 per day: 99.6% general aviation, 0.3% air taxi and 0.1% military. At that time there were 230 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-engine, 16% multi-engine, 1% jet and 1% helicopter.^[2]

It is also the base of FFTC (Florida Flight Training Center), that does pilot training as well as charter service within Florida and the surrounding states.

Triple Diamond is the main FBO and provides assistance to jet aircraft.

Sarasota Avionics International maintains its headquarters in a 10,000 SF hangar on the northwest side of the airport.

There are two restaurants located at the airport: Honoluana or the Cockpit Cafè.