Indian River Aerodrome
FL74 · Vero Beach, Florida · Indian River County · map
Indian River Aerodrome is a private airport, 6 miles southwest of Vero Beach, Florida, 23 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,567 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FL74
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 23 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, sunrise to sunset
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,567 × 150 ft | Grass | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 147 ft, canal 6 ft high 100 ft from the end
- Runway 35: threshold displaced 273 ft
Aircraft registered in Vero Beach from the FAA register
559 aircraft are registered to owners in Vero Beach, Florida: 411 piston singles, 65 piston twins, 40 turboprops, 18 business jets, 14 helicopters. 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 · 3 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
- Pvt use VFR.
- For low-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 key UNICOM 5 times.
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.