Airports · Florida · airfield · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Manatee

FD80 · Old Town, Florida · Dixie County · map

Manatee is a private airfield, 7 miles south of Old Town, Florida, 7 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA FD80
Kind: Airfield · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 7 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Jacksonville sectional
Magnetic variation: 2W
In the FAA's files since: May 1992

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
18W/36W	2,400 × 100 ft	Water

Aircraft registered in Old Town from the FAA register

11 aircraft are registered to owners in Old Town, Florida: 5 balloons, 3 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airfield; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airfield alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airfield NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airfield.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Cross City Airport CTY · 10 nm northwest Oak Tree Landing Airport 6J8 · 21 nm northeast George T Lewis Airport CDK · 23 nm south Flying Ten Airport 0J8 · 26 nm east Williston Regional X60 · 28 nm east Manatee Springs Airport 5FD0 · 1 nm southwest · private Brookins Air Strip 73FD · 6 nm east · private White Farms Airport FA36 · 6 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided all operations conducted in VFR weather conditions; landing area limited to pvt use by the proponent.
Traffic pattern will be over west side of river; avoid flying low over Manatee springs state park.
Spb closed on holiday weekends.
Floating debris on river during high water.

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.