Richards Field
04FA · Homestead, Florida · Dade County · map
Richards Field is a private airport, 5 miles northwest of Homestead, Florida, 9 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,620 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 04FA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 9 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, dawn to dusk
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1969
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,620 × 212 ft | Grass |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Aircraft registered in Homestead from the FAA register
118 aircraft are registered to owners in Homestead, Florida: 96 piston singles, 10 piston twins, 7 gliders, 4 turboprops, 1 business jet. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR only; pvt use.
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.