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).
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
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1963
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. 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.
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 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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.