Airports · Florida · seaplane base · FAA file effective October 29, 2026

West Bay Creek Seaplane Base

1FL5 · West Bay, Florida · Bay County · map

West Bay Creek Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base owned by Bay Seaplanes, INC, 1 mile south of West Bay, Florida, 0 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes: FAA 1FL5
Kind: Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Bay Seaplanes, INC
Elevation: 0 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: every day, 10:00 am to sunset
Fuel and services: no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart: New Orleans sectional
Magnetic variation: 1W
In the FAA's files since: October 1999

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
14W/32W	3,000 × 100 ft	Water

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this seaplane base.

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Northwest Florida Beaches International (5 nm northeast), Defuniak Springs Airport (30 nm northwest), Destin Executive (32 nm west), Tri-County (35 nm northeast).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Northwest Florida Beaches International (5 nm northeast), Defuniak Springs Airport (30 nm northwest), Destin Executive (32 nm west), Tri-County (35 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

Provided VFR, pvt use.
Fuel (100LL) available for emergency use only.
Bay seaplanes, inc monitors frequency 122.75.
85 feet bridge 2000 feet southeast, 440 feet tower 2 NM north and 70 feet power line 6200 feet southeast of seaplane base.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in West Bay from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list West Bay, FL as the owner's town.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base

Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this seaplane base.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Northwest Florida Beaches International ECP · 5 nm northeast Defuniak Springs Airport 54J · 30 nm northwest Panhandle Helicopter Heliport FD13 · 4 nm southwest · private Beach Mosquito Control District West Heliport 0FL6 · 4 nm southwest · private Stock Island Airport 94FA · 9 nm northeast · private Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Heliport NBV · 10 nm southeast · private Post Electric INC Heliport FA20 · 11 nm southeast · private Medical Trans Base Heliport 6FA3 · 11 nm east · private

Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register

Record

Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 983 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Florida 128 landing places
Florida 21,706 aircraft registered

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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 28, 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.