Tampa Executive
VDF · KVDF · Tampa, Florida · Hillsborough County · map
Tampa Executive is a public-use airport owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Auth, 6 miles east of Tampa, Florida, 21 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VDF · ICAO KVDF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Hillsborough County Aviation Auth
- Elevation
- 21 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm; weekends, 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
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1957
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 3,219 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 43 ft high 1,955 ft from the end
- Runway 23: ILS with DME, PAPI, two lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 800 ft, 4,200 ft available for landing, road 17 ft high 310 ft from the end
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the right, brush 23 ft high 480 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, pole 123 ft high 2,895 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.9 | |
| Maaty and star | 118.8 | |
| Vdf and aWOS-3 | 121.125 | |
| Dades and star | 135.5 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 813-630-0924.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
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 · 17 since 1982, 3 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
- VFR operations only
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 23; runway end identifier lights runway 05, 18, 36; PAPI runway 05, 23, 18, 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23, 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport physical address: 6530 Tampa executive airport road, Tampa, FL 33610
- Runway 18 approach slope 20:1 to aer.
- Runway 23 approach slope 50:1 to dthr.
- Noise abatement procedures in effect for runway 18. No turns until over interstate. No turns below 400 feet above ground level.
- When depg runway 05 be alert for approach lights (MALSR) light fixture located 55 feet beyond runway end and 9 feet above runway end elev.
- For clearance delivery contact Tampa approach on 119.9.
- Trees 510 feet northwest of runway 5/23 full length located inside trsn surface.
- Be advised of seaplane flight activity 3NM southeast of airport.
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.