Peter O Knight Airport
TPF · KTPF · Tampa, Florida · Hillsborough County · map
Peter O Knight Airport is a public-use airport owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Auth, 3 miles south of Tampa, Florida, 7 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 3,583 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TPF · ICAO KTPF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Hillsborough County Aviation Auth
- Elevation
- 7 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 900 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- 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
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 3,583 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 2,687 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 179 ft, 3,224 ft available for landing, fence 6 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 22: threshold displaced 180 ft, 3,403 ft available for landing, boat 30 ft high 415 ft from the end
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 203 ft, 2,371 ft available for landing, fence 6 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 201 ft, 2,311 ft available for landing, fence 5 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | |
| Clearance delivery IFR | 119.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.9 | |
| Tpf and aWOS-3PT | 118.925 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 813-251-6824.
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Aircraft registered in Tampa from the FAA register
414 aircraft are registered to owners in Tampa, Florida: 246 piston singles, 58 business jets, 37 turboprops, 29 helicopters, 24 piston twins. 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 · 22 since 1982, 5 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 runway end identifier lights runway 22; PAPI runway 04, 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 and 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- John tiliacos
- 6 feet fence 200 feet from runway end 222 feet R.
- Runway 18 has 6 feet fence and 15 feet road 200 feet from runway end 93 feet right.
- Runway 36 has 5 feet fence and 15 feet road 200 feet from runway end 150 feet L.
- Ship channel runway 18 approach/departure end.
- Ship channel runway 22 approach/departure end.
- Runway 04 approach ratio 26:1 to the dthr.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to dthr.
- Runway 22 approach ratio 26:1 to the dthr.
- Approach ratio 25:1 to dthr.
- Ocean vessel ship channel east.
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.