Manatee Airport
48X · Palmetto, Florida · Manatee County · map
Manatee Airport is a public-use airport owned by Dfm Properties, LLC, 7 miles northeast of Palmetto, Florida, 27 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 3,120 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 48X
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Dfm Properties, LLC
- Elevation
- 27 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Saturday, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1977
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 3,120 × 100 ft | Grass, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 38 ft high 745 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Palmetto from the FAA register
33 aircraft are registered to owners in Palmetto, Florida: 28 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 glider, 1 business jet. 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 · 16 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
- Birds, wildlife and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Fuel available daily sunrise to sunset.
- Runway 07 and 25 thlds marked by 3 green lights and 1 bucket on each side of runway.
- Runway 07 and 25 edges marked by pails on each side of runway.
- Aircraft hngrs 135 feet L of centerline first half of runway 07. Aircraft parked 135 feet R of centerline first 1/3 of runway 25.
- Runway 07/25 first 500 feet east end soft after heavy seasonal rains.
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.