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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Skid Strip

XMR · KXMR · Cocoa Beach, Florida · Brevard County · map

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Skid Strip is a private airport owned by Usaf, 7 miles northeast of Cocoa Beach, Florida, 10 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 9,999 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

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 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Skid Strip…

The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes
FAA XMR · ICAO KXMR
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
Owner
Usaf
Elevation
10 feet above sea level
Control tower
A control tower · no specific work hours mon-fri; closed saturday, sunday and holidays.
Attended
Monday to Friday, irreg
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Jacksonville sectional
Magnetic variation
7W

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1331N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
13/319,999 × 200 ftAsphaltHigh-intensity lights
  • Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left
  • Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left, SALS

Radio frequencies

Tower118.625Cape
Tower143.15Cape
Tower (secondary)126.2Cape
Approach and departure134.95Cape
Xmr and automated weather (ASOS)119.325
Bitho and star128.375Cape
Pre-taxi clearance139.3Cape

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel
none reported
Repairs
none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Merritt Island Airport (10 nm southwest), Space Coast Regional (13 nm west), Arthur Dunn Air Park Airport (17 nm northwest), Melbourne Orlando International (22 nm south).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Merritt Island Airport (10 nm southwest), Space Coast Regional (13 nm west), Arthur Dunn Air Park Airport (17 nm northwest), Melbourne Orlando International (22 nm south).

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

  • Prior permission required from ros, ccafs, FL V467-5941.
  • Service light: runway 31 approach light non-standard sals, 1000'.
  • FSS-ST. petersburg (pie) - NOTAM - xmr.
  • 1100 feet rectangular, 1600 feet ovhd, 600 feet helicopter.
  • Closed Saturday, Sunday and holiday. See flip AP/1 supplementary information.
  • Cape Canaveral afs operations officer MS.terry bron.
  • State 175, sbtt 538, trt 522, tdt 890
  • Jasu: 1(AM32A-60A) 1(A/M32A-86D).
  • Fuel: J8 1200 - 2200Z++MON-FRI, otr times rqr 5 days advn notice. Due to ltd manning, aircrew assistance is required with rfl operations.
  • Restricted: all aircraft will contact app before proceeding to Cape Canaveral. Landing and takeoff not authorized unless Cape tower is operates.
  • Restricted: no arrival or departure within 1 hour of Cape Canaveral launch operates. Landing and takeoff not auzd unless Cape tower is operates. All aircraft will contact app before proceeding to Cape Canaveral. Flight is restricted to 1000' above and within a horizontal rad of 2000' FR any Space launch complex.
  • Restricted: if operates necessity rqr flight closer than these restricted, coord with the custodian of the affected complex shall be accomplished no later than 24 hour prior to flight.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Cocoa Beach from the FAA register

28 aircraft are registered to owners in Cocoa Beach, Florida: 22 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 2 business jets, 1 balloon. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

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

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

  • American Air Academy INC 6 aircraft · Merritt Island, 11 miles away
  • High Wing Air Services LLC 4 aircraft · Merritt Island, 11 miles away High Wing Flight Training offers professional flight training from student pilot to airline transport pilot level at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida.
  • Merritt Island Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Merritt Island, 11 miles away Central Florida Flight Club is a flying club based in Merritt Island, Florida that offers flight training, aircraft rental, and instruction services.
  • US Aviation Training Solutions INC 19 aircraft · Titusville, 14 miles away US Aviation Training Solutions is a flight school based in Titusville, Florida that offers FAA Part 141 certified training programs for private pilot, commercial pilot, instrument rating, and certified flight instructor licenses in both air
  • Florida Coastal Flying Club LLC 4 aircraft · Titusville, 14 miles away
  • Eastern Florida State College 3 aircraft · Cocoa, 14 miles away
  • Indian River Flying Club INC 4 aircraft · Rockledge, 15 miles away

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.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

2013-05-10DCA13CA088 · General Atomics Mq-9 CBP113 · accident · no injuries

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.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/XMR.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 November 6, 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.