Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport
X51 · Homestead, Florida · Dade County · map
Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport is a public-use airport owned by Miami-Dade County, 4 miles northwest of Homestead, Florida, 7 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 4,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 22 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The FAA counts about 76,617 takeoffs and landings a year.
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What is the airport code for Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport?
Its FAA code is X51.
Where is Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport?
It is 4 miles northwest of Homestead, Florida, 7 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport?
The longest of its 3 runways, 18/36, is 4,001 feet long.
Does Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A.
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport?
19 pilot examiners and 28 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport…
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA X51
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Miami-Dade County
- Elevation
- 7 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1963
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,001 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 3,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09U/27U | 2,500 × 150 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 18: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the right
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 22 ft high 1,270 ft from the end
- Runway 28: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 09U: trees 46 ft high 2,270 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Departure procedure (ALTNN) · Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BNGOS) | 125.5 | |
| X51 and aWOS-3 | 118.375 | |
| Fowee and star · Frogz and star · Palmz and star | 120.5 | |
| Tarpn and star 12000 feet | 124.6 | |
| Bnfsh and star · Cstal and star | 124.85 | |
| Luuce and star · Tarpn and star 9000 feet | 126.05 | |
| Luuce and star · Tarpn and star 7000 feet | 133.775 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 305-247-2791.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- charter flights, gliders, flight instruction, parachute jumping, aircraft rental, aircraft sales, aerial surveying, glider towing
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Miami Executive (11 nm northeast), Miami International (23 nm northeast), Miami-Opa Locka Executive (29 nm northeast).
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
- VFR only.
- Paja southeast corner of airport.
- Marked with white cones.
- Marked with white cones.
- Aerobatic box south of airport and east of runway 18/36.
- Remote control model flying fields 1.8 NM north runway 18.
- Glider act 8000 feet and below and crop dusting in the vicinity of airport.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
Within ten miles
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 19 |
| other | 3 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 76,617, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 2,100 |
| general aviation, travelling | 26,451 |
| general aviation, local | 46,582 |
| military | 1,484 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
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):
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.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
19 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 18 for private pilot, 17 for commercial and instrument, 7 for airline transport pilot, 9 for flight instructor, 2 for type ratings; 15 for airplanes, 11 for multi-engine airplanes, 2 for helicopters, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 1 sport aviation examiner, 28 aviation medical examiners, 4 mechanic examiners, 5 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 19 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 8 engineering representatives, 2 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 68 training center evaluators, 51 aircrew program designees, 2 training center examiners, 6 administrative pilot examiners.
- Aaron Michael Flodin private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Homestead General Aviation Airport · Homestead, FL (0 nm) · (904) 881-4840 · [email protected]
- Steven Kirkpatrick Diehl private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, gliders · homestead General Airport · Homestead, FL (0 nm) · (786) 243-7640 · [email protected]
- Alvin Guthery private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; helicopters · SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT · Miami, FL (23 nm) · (305) 502-7090 · [email protected]
- Carlos Cortes private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Miami, FL (23 nm) · (786) 229-6657 · [email protected]
- David Jose Pineda private pilot, commercial and instrument; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Miami, FL (23 nm) · (786) 338-0528 · [email protected]
- Diane Elizabeth Reinken private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · Miami, FL (23 nm) · (786) 351-6064 · [email protected]
- Gary H Schneider private pilot, commercial and instrument; airplanes · Miami, FL (23 nm) · (305) 389-0089 · [email protected]
- Soeren Sauer private pilot, type ratings, commercial pilot, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, foreign pilot certificates; helicopters · Sauer Aviation, LLC · Miami, FL (23 nm) · (503) 926-3170 · [email protected]
All 213 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 1 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
- World 1 Aero Solutions LLC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 18 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 983 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 21,706 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/X51.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 28, 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.