Page Field

Page Field

Infobox Airport
name = Page Field


image-width = 300
caption = 6 January 1999


image2-width = 180
caption2 = FAA airport diagram
IATA = FMY
ICAO = KFMY
FAA = FMY
type = Public
owner = Lee County Port Authority
operator =
city-served =
location = Fort Myers, Florida
elevation-f = 17
elevation-m = 5
website = [http://www.flylcpa.com/fmy/index.php www.FlyLCPA.com/fmy/]
r1-number = 5/23
r1-length-f = 6,406
r1-length-m = 1,953
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 13/31
r2-length-f = 4,912
r2-length-m = 1,497
r2-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 1999
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 94,666
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 220
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=FMY|use=PU|own=PU|site=03198.*A, effective 2007-10-25]

Page Field Airport codes|FMY|KFMY|FMY is a public airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Fort Myers, a city in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is owned by the Lee County Port Authority.

Page Field hosted domestic airline service for Lee County until the opening of Southwest Florida Regional Airport (now Southwest Florida International Airport) in 1983. The former terminal building now serves as an office building for law enforcement.

Facilities and aircraft

Page Field covers an area of 670 acres (271 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 6,406 x 150 ft (1,953 x 46 m) and 13/31 measuring 4,912 x 150 ft (1,497 x 46 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 26, 1999, the airport had 94,666 aircraft operations, an average of 259 per day: 95% general aviation, 5% air taxi and <1% military. There are 220 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, 2% helicopter and 1% jet.

History

Constructed in 1927 as a civilian airport, Page Field was appropriated by the War Department at the beginning of World War II. Renamed Fort Myers Army Air Field, it was used by the United States Army Air Force's Third Air Force for both antisubmarine patrols and conventional bomber training in the B-24 Liberator. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93d_Air-Ground_Operations_Wing] The facility was returned to the civilian control of the State of Florida and then Lee County shortly following the end of World War II.

ee also

* Florida World War II Army Airfields

References

External links

* [http://www.flylcpa.com/fmy/index.php Page Field] (official site)
*PDF| [http://www.cfaspp.com/FASP/AirportPDFs/page_field_%28october2007%29.pdf Page Field] |271 KiB brochure from [http://www.cfaspp.com/airports.asp CFASPP] (October 2007)
*FAA-diagram|00154
*US-airport|FMY


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