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Silver Lake Seaplane Base

48FA · Leesburg, Florida · Lake County · map

Silver Lake Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 5 miles ene of Leesburg, Florida, 63 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 48FA
Kind
Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
63 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Jacksonville sectional
In the FAA's files since
May 2023

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

13W31WN1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
13W/31W4,077 × 90 ftWater
  • Runway 31W: right-hand traffic pattern

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)122.9

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: Leesburg International (1 nm south), Orlando Apopka Airport (14 nm southeast), Inverness Airport (27 nm west), Orlando Sanford International (30 nm east).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Leesburg International (1 nm south), Tavares Seaplane Base (5 nm southeast), Umatilla Municipal (10 nm northeast), Orlando Apopka Airport (14 nm southeast).

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.

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

Aircraft registered in Leesburg from the FAA register

98 aircraft are registered to owners in Leesburg, Florida: 65 piston singles, 14 helicopters, 8 business jets, 7 piston twins, 3 turboprops. 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:

Flying Colors Airparts INC 20Brainerd Helicopters INC 12Villages Equipment CO 7Quality By Design INC 2Flying Colors Air Parts INC 2Ankole Watusi Cattle Company LLC 2

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 Leesburg, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

Repair stations in Leesburg:

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.

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

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/48FA.json.

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 26, 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.