Palatka Municipal Airport
Palatka Municipal Airport, also known as Lieutenant Kay Larkin Field (FAA LID 28J), is a public, city-owned airport serving Palatka, Florida. It sits about two nautical miles northwest of Palatka’s downtown, at an elevation of 48 feet, and covers 703 acres.
The airport has two asphalt runways: 9/27 is 6,000 by 100 feet and 17/35 is 3,510 by 75 feet.
In 2018, Palatka Municipal Airport recorded 37,186 aircraft operations (about 102 per day), mostly general aviation. There were 66 aircraft based at the airport: 61 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, and 1 jet.
History notes: The airport was founded in 1938 with 214 acres. In 1942, the U.S. Navy leased it for naval air training as part of Naval Air Station Jacksonville and named it Kay Larkin Field on August 21, 1942 in honor of 1st Lieutenant J. K. “Kay” Larkin, a Palatka native who died in World War II. The War Assets Administration returned the airport to the city in 1946. A terminal was built in 1963 to support potential commercial service, and South Central Airlines operated there from 1963 to 1965. A new 4,000-square-foot terminal opened in 2010. The airport is listed in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems as a general aviation facility. Website: PalatkaKayLarkin.com.
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