North Palm Beach County General Aviation
F45 · West Palm Beach, Florida · Palm Beach County · map
North Palm Beach County General Aviation is a public-use airport owned by Palm Beach County, 12 miles northwest of West Palm Beach, Florida, 21 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 09R/27L, is 4,300 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA F45
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Palm Beach County
- Elevation
- 21 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- 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
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1994
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09R/27L | 4,300 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 4,299 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09L/27R | 3,679 × 75 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 09R: ILS with DME, PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 27L: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 75 ft high 2,820 ft from the end
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 51 ft high 2,065 ft from the end
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 33 ft high 910 ft from the end
- Runway 09L: tree 67 ft high 1,655 ft from the end
- Runway 27R: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 67 ft high 1,560 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Clearance delivery | 120.825 | |
| Approach and departure | 128.3 | |
| F45 and aWOS-3 | 119.975 | |
| Clmnt and star · Jestr and star | 124.6 | |
| Ttylr and star | 125.2 | |
| Vuudu and star | 127.35 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 561-630-6932.
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 West Palm Beach from the FAA register
190 aircraft are registered to owners in West Palm Beach, Florida: 87 piston singles, 43 business jets, 20 piston twins, 20 helicopters, 8 turboprops. 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 · 23 since 1982, 2 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
- DUSK-2100; aft 2100 activate runway end identifier lights runway 09R, 14, 27L, and 32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09R/27L and 14/32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pvc pipe EV 200 feet.
- Threshold mkr 4 feet beyond runway end.
- 09L/27R thlds marked with pvc pipes.
- Bird act in the vicinity of airport.
- Extensive flight training mult runways. Practice approach runway 9R/27L mnt the common traffic frequency and yield to traffic pattern.
- Taxiway G1 closed.
- Airport surface condition not rprtd for all runways.
- The FBO (fixed-base operator) service fee may apply.
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.