Avon Park Executive
AVO · KAVO · Avon Park, Florida · Highlands County · map
Avon Park Executive is a public-use airport owned by the City of Avon Park, 2 miles west of Avon Park, Florida, 160 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 5,374 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AVO · ICAO KAVO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Avon Park
- Elevation
- 160 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,374 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 3,844 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, four lights on the left, brush 5 ft high 265 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,044 ft, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 10: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 45 ft high 1,595 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, four lights on the left, fence 5 ft high 221 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Avo and aWOS-3 | 118.725 | |
| Avon Park Center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.55 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 863-453-4223.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Avon Park from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in Avon Park, Florida: 18 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 1 drone. 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 · 10 since 1982, 4 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
- VFR operations only.
- Beacon out of service indef
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 and 10/28 preset low intst dusk to dawn; to incr intst and activate taxiway lights, runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23, and PAPI runway 05, 10, 23 and 28, - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 23, unlighted 15 feet road; 90 feet from end of runway, 250 feet right of centerline.
- Runway 10/28 markings faded.
- Runway 10/28 markings faded.
- Runway 05 approach ratio 34:1 to dthr.
- Runway 23 approach ratio 28:1 to dthr.
- Unlighted obstructions prsnt in the approach to runway 23 due to fence and road 200 feet of aer 23.
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.