Boca Raton Airport
BCT · KBCT · Boca Raton, Florida · Palm Beach County · map
Boca Raton Airport is a public-use airport owned by Boca Raton Airport Authority, 2 miles northwest of Boca Raton, Florida, 13 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 6,276 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KBCT · observed 4:53 pm EDT (20:53 UTC), 26 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the southeast (140°) at 8 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a few clouds at 2,000 feet
- Temperature 86°F (30°C), dew point 77°F (25°C)
- Altimeter 29.84 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KBCT 062053Z 14008KT 10SM FEW020 30/25 A2984
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BCT · ICAO KBCT
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Boca Raton Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 13 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 6,276 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 696 ft, 5,580 ft available for landing, trees 28 ft high 445 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 378 ft, 5,898 ft available for landing, road 15 ft high 270 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.425 | Boca Raton |
| Digital ATIS | 121.125 | Boca Raton |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.8 | Boca Raton |
| Apt Remark 11 With Gco Freq · Approach and departure · Mahhi and star | 127.35 | Boca Raton |
| Clmnt and star · Cptan and star · Jestr and star | 124.6 | Boca Raton |
| Ttylr and star | 125.2 | Boca Raton |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 561-391-2696.
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 Boca Raton from the FAA register
333 aircraft are registered to owners in Boca Raton, Florida: 125 piston singles, 110 turboprops, 59 business jets, 23 piston twins, 8 helicopters. 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 · 31 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
- Noise abatement information - amgr. Voluntary noise abatement procedure in effect all times and aircraft. Voluntary curfew 10:00 pm to 7:00 am. Use nbaa standard noise abatement approach and departure procedure.
- When the control tower closed actv runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23, PAPI runway 5 and 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Ext 211
- Engineered materials arresting sys (emas) 252 feet in length by 170 feet in width located at the der 05.
- Engineered materials arresting sys (emas) 300 feet in length by 170 feet in width located at the der 23.
- Approach slope 36:1 to dtrh.
- Approach slope 41:1 to displaced thld.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Use recommended departure: runway 05 L turn hdg 360 stay west of interstate to 1500 feet; runway 23 R turn hdg 255 as soon as practicable aft passing runway end to 1500 feet; avoid residential areas; overfly mall area.
- Tgls voluntarily rstrd to 9:00 am to 5:00 pm MON-FRI; voluntary restrn on stop and go landings or int departures. Voluntary restrn on repetitive pattern operations.
- Maintenance runup NA 1:00 am to 1:00 pm.
- Aircraft parking ltd durg vip tfr pds.
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.