Lake Persimmon Airstrip Airport
03FA · Lake Placid, Florida · Highlands County · map
Lake Persimmon Airstrip Airport is a private airport owned by Persimmon Airport INC, 4 miles northwest of Lake Placid, Florida, 70 feet above sea level. Its one runway, E/W, is 2,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 03FA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Persimmon Airport INC
- Elevation
- 70 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| E/W | 2,000 × 200 ft | Grass |
- Runway E: trees 30 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway W: trees 30 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Sebring Regional (7 nm northeast), Avon Park Executive (16 nm northwest), Okeechobee County (30 nm east), Lake Wales Municipal (34 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Sebring Regional (7 nm northeast), Avon Park Executive (16 nm northwest), Arcadia Municipal (25 nm west), Wauchula Municipal (27 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Florida · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR only; pvt use.
- Trailer 50 feet from north side runway at west end,trailer 200 feet from runway south side at west end.
- East end of runway abutts small Lake.
- T-HGR 30FT from runway south side 500FT from east end, building 150FT from runway south side 100FT from east end, house 20FT from runway north side 100FT from east end.
- Poles at 150-300FT from east end on north edge of east end, trailer 150FT from RWY-N side 400FT from east end.
- Area of soft sand vic of building constr MID-FLD.
- Buildings 300' from west end of runway.
- 10' trees west end of runway.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Lake Placid from the FAA register
71 aircraft are registered to owners in Lake Placid, Florida: 65 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Lake Placid 71 aircraft · 65 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Flying H LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Lake Placid Flyer LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Hmh Consolidated LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 984 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Florida 128 landing places
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/03FA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 27, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.