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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (4 nm southwest), Miami Executive (7 nm northeast), Miami International (19 nm northeast), Miami-Opa Locka Executive (25 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (4 nm southwest), Miami Executive (7 nm northeast), Miami International (19 nm northeast), Miami-Opa Locka Executive (25 nm northeast).
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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Homestead, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Flight Club Academy LLC 1 aircraft · Palmetto Bay, 13 miles away
Repair stations in Homestead:
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Homestead 118 aircraft · 96 piston singles, 10 piston twins, 7 gliders
- Southern Aero LLC 8 aircraft in town
- Cappe Investment Group LLC 7 aircraft in town
- Custom Air International LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Mortgage Experts LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Cardinal Point Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Flight Club Academy LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- World 1 Aero Solutions LLC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 5 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 982 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 21,709 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/04FA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.