Plantation Key Seaplane Base
42FL · Marathon, Florida · Monroe County · map
Plantation Key Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 12 miles southwest of Marathon, 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 42FL
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 0 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Friday to Monday, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1981
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09W/27W | 6,600 × 3,300 ft | Water |
- Runway 09W: right-hand traffic pattern
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: The Florida Keys Marathon International (29 nm southwest), Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (32 nm north), Miami Executive (42 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: The Florida Keys Marathon International (29 nm southwest), Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (32 nm north), Miami Executive (42 nm north).
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; private use only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Marathon from the FAA register
46 aircraft are registered to owners in Marathon, Florida: 33 piston singles, 8 helicopters, 3 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes. Not every one of them is based at this seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base 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
Repair stations in Marathon:
- Air Alliance INC Air Alliance, Inc.
Companies in the same town as this seaplane base, 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 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
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Marathon 46 aircraft · 33 piston singles, 8 helicopters, 3 piston twins
- Florida Keys Flight Academy LLC 10 aircraft in town
- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District 6 aircraft in town
- Air Alliance INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 983 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 7 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Florida 128 landing places
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/42FL.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 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.