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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

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
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: Miami sectional
Magnetic variation: 2W
In the FAA's files since: September 1971

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

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

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:

Flying H LLC 3Lake Placid Flyer LLC 2Hmh Consolidated LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Sebring Regional SEF · 7 nm northeast Avon Park Executive AVO · 16 nm northwest Arcadia Municipal X06 · 25 nm west Wauchula Municipal CHN · 27 nm west River Ranch Resort Airport 2RR · 28 nm northeast Florida Hospital Lake Placid Heliport 30FA · 3 nm southeast · private Lake Josephine 9FL3 · 3 nm north · private Placid Lakes Airport 09FA · 6 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

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.

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 5, 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.