Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional
BKV · KBKV · Brooksville, Florida · Hernando County · map
Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional is a public-use airport owned by Hernando County Bocc, 6 miles southwest of Brooksville, Florida, 76 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 7,001 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 181 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 101,932 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KBKV · observed 6:51 pm EDT (22:51 UTC), 3 minutes ago
MVFR flyable but watch the ceiling and visibility
- Wind from the east (090°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 3 miles
- Sky: a few clouds at 600 feet, scattered clouds at 4,900 feet, overcast at 8,000 feet
- Weather: light rain, mist
- Temperature 75°F (24°C), dew point 75°F (24°C)
- Altimeter 29.87 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)
SPECI KBKV 062251Z 09006KT 3SM -RA BR FEW006 SCT049 OVC080 24/24 A2987 RMK AO2 P0012
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 BKV · ICAO KBKV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Hernando County Bocc
- Elevation
- 76 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 6:00 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
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 7,001 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 03/21 | 4,200 × 150 ft | Concrete, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 63 ft high 3,135 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 99 ft high 3,540 ft from the end
- Runway 03: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 51 ft high 1,155 ft from the end
- Runway 21: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 81 ft high 2,960 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.55 | Brooksville |
| UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Ground | 121.4 | Brooksville |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 119.9 | Brooksville |
| Approach and departure | 125.3 | Brooksville |
| Brooksville and rco | 122.3 | Brooksville |
| Bkv and automated weather (ASOS) | 134.725 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 352-799-5881.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 101,932, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Brooksville from the FAA register
92 aircraft are registered to owners in Brooksville, Florida: 67 piston singles, 11 business jets, 5 turboprops, 5 helicopters, 4 piston twins. 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 · 33 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
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- DUSK-2200. Approach lights (MALSR) runway 9; medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 and 09/27 preset low intst DUSK-2200, to incr intst and activate after 2200 - the common traffic frequency.
- Long and transverse cracking producing loose aggregate.
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.