Summerland Key Cove Airport
FD51 · Summerland Key, Florida · Monroe County · map
Summerland Key Cove Airport is a private airport owned by Summerland Key Cove Arpt CO in Summerland Key, Florida, 4 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 2,550 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FD51
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Summerland Key Cove Arpt CO
- Elevation
- 4 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1957
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 2,550 × 20 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 12: threshold displaced 359 ft, power line 40 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 290 ft, trees 25 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Notes
- landing fee charged
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Key West International (18 nm west), The Florida Keys Marathon International (22 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Key West International (18 nm west), The Florida Keys Marathon International (22 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Florida · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to 1959.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Summerland Key from the FAA register
35 aircraft are registered to owners in Summerland Key, Florida: 29 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Paradise Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · Cudjoe Key, 4 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Summerland Key 35 aircraft · 29 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 1 turboprops
- Skydive Florida Keys INC 3 aircraft in town
- Lively Charters INC 3 aircraft in town
- Baker Aviation Consulting LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Summerland Spins LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Paradise Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 984 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Florida 128 landing places
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/FD51.json.
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 27, 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.