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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Southwest Florida International (7 nm south), Page Field (9 nm southwest), LA Belle Municipal (16 nm east), Immokalee Regional (21 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Southwest Florida International (7 nm south), Page Field (9 nm southwest), LA Belle Municipal (16 nm east), Immokalee Regional (21 nm southeast).
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
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, 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:
- Paragon Flight Training CO 10 aircraft · Fort Myers, 10 miles away Paragon Flight Training is a flight school offering FAA-approved pilot training programs in Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, and LaGrange.
- Fly Rite Aviation LLC 5 aircraft · Fort Myers, 10 miles away Fly Rite Aviation is a flight training school based in Fort Myers, Florida that offers pilot training including discovery flights, simulator time, and instructor-led training.
- Charlotte Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Fort Myers, 10 miles away
- Yoanna Flight School INC 1 aircraft · Fort Myers, 10 miles away Yoanna Flight School is an FAA Part 61 and Part 141 approved flight school based at Page Field Airport in Fort Myers, Florida.
Charter operators and airlines based in Lehigh Acres:
- Southwest Helicopters, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate Southwest HeliServices LLC is a helicopter operator based in Mesa, Arizona, providing charter services and specialized helicopter operations across the western United States.
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 · 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. 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 Lehigh Acres 39 aircraft · 15 piston singles, 11 helicopters, 6 turboprops
- Lee County Mosquito Control District 14 aircraft in town
- Obrien Helicopters INC 2 aircraft in town
- Southwest Helicopters, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Paragon Flight Training CO 10 aircraft · flight school
- Fly Rite Aviation LLC 5 aircraft · flight school
- Charlotte Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 4 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,111 since 1982 · 988 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 21,712 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/FL59.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.