Homestead Arb Airport
HST · KHST · Homestead, Florida · Dade County · map
Homestead Arb Airport is a private airport owned by Usaf - Homestead Arb, 3 miles east of Homestead, Florida, 6 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 11,202 feet of concrete. It has a control tower.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HST · ICAO KHST
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf - Homestead Arb
- Elevation
- 6 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with approach control · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1942
Runway

For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 11,202 × 300 ft | Concrete | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 24: PAPI, four lights on the left, SALS
Radio frequencies
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 132.275 | Homestead |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.75 | Homestead |
| Tower | 133.45 | Homestead |
| Approach and departure | 123.8 | Homestead |
| Departure procedure (ALTNN) · Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BNGOS) | 125.5 | Homestead |
| Fowee and star · Frogz and star · Palmz and star | 120.5 | Homestead |
| Tarpn and star 12000 feet | 124.6 | Homestead |
| Bnfsh and star · Cstal and star | 124.85 | Homestead |
| Luuce and star · Tarpn and star 9000 feet | 126.05 | Homestead |
| Luuce and star · Tarpn and star 7000 feet | 133.775 | Homestead |
| Operations 93 FS mako operations | 138.025 | Homestead |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (9 nm west), Miami Executive (10 nm north), Miami International (19 nm north), Miami-Opa Locka Executive (26 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport (9 nm west), Miami Executive (10 nm north), Miami International (19 nm north), Miami-Opa Locka Executive (26 nm north).
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
- Determination pending.
- A-GEAR: approach end BAK-12B(B)/14 for active runway in LO posn. Departure end BAK-12B(B)/14 for active runway in raised posn.
- FSS-MIAMI MIA-NOTAM hst.
- Ovhd pattern altitude 2000 feet above ground level.
- Hook E5 (80 feet ovrn).
- BAK-14 BAK-12B(B) (1087 feet) hook E5 (74 feet ovrn).
- Sfl out of service.
- Rectangular 1000 feet, ovhd 2000 feet.
- PAPI out of service until further notice due to tree obstruction.
- Jasu: 3(AM32A-60) 2(A/M32A-86).
- Oil - O-133-148
- Restricted: coord of prior permission required outside of block time by fone is rqr, or prior permission required NR will be considered cnl except for medical evacuation and vip aircraft.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Homestead from the FAA register
118 aircraft are registered to owners in Homestead, Florida: 96 piston singles, 10 piston twins, 7 gliders, 4 turboprops, 1 business jet. 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
Fuel and service companies in Homestead, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Flight Club Academy LLC 1 aircraft · Palmetto Bay, 10 miles away
Repair stations in Homestead:
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 Homestead 118 aircraft · 96 piston singles, 10 piston twins, 7 gliders
- Southern Aero LLC 8 aircraft in town
- Cappe Investment Group LLC 7 aircraft in town
- Custom Air International LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Mortgage Experts LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Cardinal Point Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Flight Club Academy LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- World 1 Aero Solutions LLC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 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/HST.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.
