Lykes Brighton Airport
8FD5 · Okeechobee, Florida · Glades County · map
Lykes Brighton Airport is a private airport owned by Lykes Bros INC, 13 miles east of Okeechobee, Florida, 30 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,400 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8FD5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Lykes Bros INC
- Elevation
- 30 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1988
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,400 × 70 ft | Grass |
Aircraft registered in Okeechobee from the FAA register
85 aircraft are registered to owners in Okeechobee, Florida: 67 piston singles, 8 helicopters, 3 turboprops, 3 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 drones. 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provide VFR/pvt use.
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.