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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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 and services
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,800 × 50 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Sebring Regional (13 nm north), Avon Park Executive (22 nm north), LA Belle Municipal (30 nm south).
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
- Private USE-VFR
- For lights runway 18/36 key 122.8 5 times inm 5 secs.
- 5' fence at 200' and 300'.
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 · 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. 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 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
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 3 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 21,712 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/09FA.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 30, 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.