Albert Whitted Airport
SPG · KSPG · St Petersburg, Florida · Pinellas County · map
Albert Whitted Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of St Petersburg in St Petersburg, Florida, 7 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 07/25, is 3,676 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1).
Weather right now KSPG · observed 4:53 pm EDT (20:53 UTC), 26 minutes ago
IFR instrument conditions
- Wind from the east-northeast (070°) at 11 knots
- Visibility 2 miles
- Sky: a few clouds at 2,000 feet, a broken layer at 9,500 feet, overcast at 11,000 feet
- Weather: heavy rain, mist
- Temperature 78°F (26°C), dew point 76°F (24°C)
- Altimeter 29.85 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KSPG 062053Z 07011KT 2SM +RA BR FEW020 BKN095 OVC110 26/24 A2985 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT S AND SW SLP107 P0014 60040 T02560244 55011
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SPG · ICAO KSPG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of St Petersburg
- Elevation
- 7 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 3,676 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 2,864 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 557 ft, 2,849 ft available for landing, building 19 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 25: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 263 ft, 3,042 ft available for landing, boat 52 ft high 1,020 ft from the end
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the right, threshold displaced 190 ft, 2,559 ft available for landing, boat 40 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 115 ft, 2,559 ft available for landing, boat 37 ft high 614 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 127.4 | Whitted |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Ground | 121.8 | Whitted |
| Approach and departure East | 119.65 | Whitted |
| Approach and departure West | 125.3 | Whitted |
| Spg and automated weather (ASOS) | 118.875 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 727-821-4334.
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Aircraft registered in St Petersburg from the FAA register
18 aircraft are registered to owners in St Petersburg, Florida: 15 piston singles, 2 business jets, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 · 55 since 1982, 8 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 and runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency, runway end identifier lights runways 7, 25, and 36 activate when medium-intensity runway lights activate, runway end identifier lights runway 18 only activate on step 3 medium-intensity runway lights, PAPI runways 07, 25, 18 and 36 operate continuously.
- 19 feet blast fence at runway end, 15 feet street 5 feet from runway end, 24 feet building 100 feet from runway end.
- Tgl NA.
- Ship channel and ocean vessels in approach area.
- Controlling obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp. Blast fence 6 feet bfr aer. Runway 07 approach ratios 20:1 from dthr.
- Runway 18 approach slp 29:1 to dthr.
- Runway 25 approach ratio 25:1 from dthr.
- Banner towing east of runway 18/36.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport; gulls on runway durg inclement weather.
- Ocean vessels in ship channels.
- Alert - heavy jet aircraft in the vicinity of airport 1600 feet and above.
- +/- 100 feet lit/unlit boat masts in runway 18, 25 and 36 approach area.
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.