Spruce Creek Airport

Coordinates: 29°04′49″N 081°02′48″W / 29.08028°N 81.04667°W / 29.08028; -81.04667

Spruce Creek Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: 7FL6
Summary
Airport type Private
Owner/Operator Spruce Creek Prop. Owners Assoc. Inc.
Serves Daytona Beach, Florida
Location Port Orange, Florida
Elevation AMSL 24 ft / 7 m
Website http://www.7fl6.org
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 4,000 1,219 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations 25,000
Based aircraft 438

Spruce Creek Airport (FAA LID: 7FL6) is a private airport located in Port Orange, seven miles (11 km) south of the central business district of Daytona Beach, in Volusia County, Florida, United States.[1] It was originally constructed during World War II as an outlying field (OLF) to nearby Naval Air Station DeLand and NAS Daytona Beach. OLF Spruce Creek originally had four paved 4,000 foot runways and was abandoned by the U.S. Navy in 1946.

Today, Spruce Creek Airport operates exclusively to service the residents of the Spruce Creek Community, a gated enclave and residential airpark development, which surrounds the airport on all sides with over 1,300 homes, a championship golf course, country club, and 24-hour patrolling security.[2] Fly-in residents enjoy sole access to the airport's one remaining operational runway directly from their homes.

Facilities and aircraft

The Spruce Creek Airport covers an area of 1,350 acres (550 ha), which contains one asphalt-paved runway (5/23) measuring 4,000 × 176 ft (1,219 × 54 m). For a 12-month period the airport had 25,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 68 per day. There are 438 aircraft based at this airport: 67% single-engine, 31% multi-engine, 1% jet and 1% helicopter.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Master Record for 7FL6 (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  2. ↑ Spruce Creek Airport, official web site
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