Buckingham Field
FL59 · Lehigh Acres, Florida · Lee County · map
Buckingham Field is a private airport owned by Lee CO Mosquito Control Dist, 5 miles wnw of Lehigh Acres, Florida, 20 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 14/32, is 4,416 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FL59
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lee CO Mosquito Control Dist
- Elevation
- 20 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 4,416 × 75 ft | Concrete | Medium-intensity lights |
| 06/24 | 2,726 × 75 ft | Concrete |
- Runway 14: threshold displaced 374 ft
- Runway 32: pulsating on the left, threshold displaced 119 ft
- Runway 06: threshold displaced 101 ft, fence 8 ft high 160 ft from the end
- Runway 24: fence 8 ft high 62 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Aircraft registered in Lehigh Acres from the FAA register
39 aircraft are registered to owners in Lehigh Acres, Florida: 15 piston singles, 11 helicopters, 6 turboprops, 5 drones, 2 balloons. 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 · 4 since 1982, 0 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
- VFR, private use.
- Undesignated areas used as helipad.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 and psil runway 32 - 123.5.
- Ditch 50' off west end of runway 06/24
- All runways total width 400 feet; takeoff/landing area 75 feet wide.
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.