Placid Lakes Airport
09FA · Lake Placid, Florida · Highlands County · map
Placid Lakes Airport is a private airport owned by Lake Airport INC, 3 miles southwest of Lake Placid, Florida, 130 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,800 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 09FA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Lake Airport INC
- Elevation
- 130 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,800 × 50 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Private USE-VFR
- For lights runway 18/36 key 122.8 5 times inm 5 secs.
- 5' fence at 200' and 300'.
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.