| Page Field General Aviation Airport | |||
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| FAA airport diagram | |||
| IATA: FMY – ICAO: KFMY – FAA LID: FMY | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Lee County Port Authority | ||
| Location | Lee County, near Fort Myers, Florida | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 17 ft / 5 m | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 5/23 | 6,406 | 1,953 | Asphalt |
| 13/31 | 4,912 | 1,497 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2009) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 75,765 | ||
| Source: Lee County Port Authority | |||
Page Field General Aviation Airport (IATA: FMY, ICAO: KFMY, FAA LID: FMY) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Fort Myers, a city in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is owned by the Lee County Port Authority.
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Page Field covers an area of 670 acres (270 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 6,406 x 150 ft (1,953 x 46 m) and 13/31 measuring 4,912 x 150 ft (1,497 x 46 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2009, the airport had 75,765 aircraft operations, an average of 207 per day.
In May 2010, construction of a new terminal building began on the west side of Page Field. Once completed, the new terminal will replace the existing facility and will include a two-story, 22,613-square-foot (2,100.8 m2) building, a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2) multi-use hangar, parking lot and a new Fuel Farm with jet and AvGas fuel. The estimated total economic impact will be $28 million. The total project cost is $16.2 million and will support 300 jobs. [1]
Constructed in 1927 as a civilian airport, Page Field was appropriated by the War Department at the beginning of World War II. Renamed Fort Myers Army Air Field, it was used by the United States Army Air Force's Third Air Force for both antisubmarine patrols and conventional bomber training in the B-24 Liberator.[2] The facility was returned to the civilian control of the State of Florida and then Lee County shortly following the end of World War II.
Page Field later hosted domestic commercial air service for the greater Fort Myers area. In the 1950s, the army barracks were replaced with a small terminal, which was expanded in 1960. A new terminal was built in the mid-1970s on the north side of Page Field. With deregulation of the airline industry in 1978, the terminal facilities and airfield could no longer handle the increased demand for air transportation to and from Southwest Florida. Commercial traffic was transferred to the newly-constructed Southwest Florida Regional Airport, known today as Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW), in 1983. Page Field now serves as a designated FAA reliever airport for RSW and accommodates only general aviation traffic.