Miami Seaplane Base

Miami Seaplane Base
IATA: MPB – ICAO: none – FAA LID: X44
Summary
Airport type Public use
Owner Chalks Airline, Inc.
Operator Chalks Airline, Inc.
Serves Miami, Florida
Location Miami-Dade County, Florida
Elevation AMSL 0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates 25°46′42″N 080°10′13″W / 25.77833°N 80.17028°W / 25.77833; -80.17028
Website www.miamiseaplanebase.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
NW/SE 15,000 4,572 Water
Statistics (1926)
Aircraft operations 1,950
Based aircraft 1

Miami Seaplane Base (IATA: MPB, FAA LID: X44) is a public-use seaplane base located 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the central business district of Miami on Watson Island in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The seaplane base was established by Chalks in 1926 and continues to be owned and operated by such.[2]

History

In 1926, Chalk's International Airlines built an air terminal on a landfill island, Watson Island, where it continued to operate for over 75 years. Its scheduled and other flights by flying boats and amphibian aircraft served many points in the Bahamas and other nearby destinations.

Chalk's moved its flights to its main engineering and operating base at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after the attacks of September 11, 2001, because of security concerns around the Port of Miami-Dade and increased helicopter traffic around Watson Island.

Grumman Mallard amphibian of Chalks Airlines at the seaplane base in 1989 after arrival from the Bahamas

As of August 8, 2016, Cape Air operates two daily non-stop scheduled commercial seaplane flights between the Miami Seaplane Base at Watson Island and the Bimini Seaplane Base at Resorts World Bimini, North Bimini Island.

Airlines and Destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Cape Air
North Bimini Island at Resorts World Bimini
Tropic Ocean Airways South Bimini Airport

References

  1. ↑ Template:FDOT Airport Directory, effective 2016
  2. ↑ FAA Airport Master Record for X44 (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
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