29°28′03″N 081°12′23″W / 29.46750°N 81.20639°W
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| Owner | Flagler County | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Bunnell, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 33 ft / 10 m | ||||||||||||||||||
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Flagler Executive Airport (ICAO: KFIN, FAA LID: FIN) is a county-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of Bunnell, a city in Flagler County, Florida, United States. The airport's former FAA location identifiers were X47 and XFL.[1] The airfield was originally constructed by the United States Navy during World War II as Naval Outlying Field Bunnell (NOLF Bunnell), an auxiliary airfield for flight training operations originating from nearby Naval Air Station Jacksonville, NAS Daytona Beach and NAS DeLand. Following the end of the war, the airfield was transferred from the Navy to Flagler County for use as a general aviation airport.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) data, the airport ranks as the fourth busiest in Florida out of 105 General Aviation airports, with 190,000 takeoffs and landings per year. This is primarily due to its use as a practice field by students from nearby Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport.[2] Due to the increase in air traffic, the Flagler County Airport now has an FAA Level 1 Contract Air Traffic Control Tower that operates from 7am - 9pm, 365 days per year.[3]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Flagler County Airport is assigned FIN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[4]
The airport is also home to the Flagler Palm Coast Army Readiness Center that opened in October 2020.[5] Listed on the FAA Airport Diagram as a "National Guard Armory," the facility actually supports units of both the U.S. Army Reserve and the Florida Army National Guard. Although no military aircraft are permanently assigned, the facility contains a flight line ramp area capable of accommodating UH-60 Blackhawk, CH-47 Chinook, and C-130 Hercules aircraft.
In 1960, it was the site of the inaugural NHRA Winter Nationals, which jointly sanctioned by NHRA and NASCAR (the NHRA was not a member of the national governing body of motorsport, the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States, until 1965), which allowed the event to be certified for insurance regulations and FIA certification because NASCAR was a founding member of the national governing body. The inaugural Winter Nationals was part of Speed Weeks for the 1960 Daytona 500. This event was developed because of an issue of issues with illegal street racing around the Daytona event.[6]
- ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for XFL PDF, effective February 24, 2022.
- ^ FAA Data Ref. "FAA Data Reference". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ Flagler County Airport. "Tower Operating Hours". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: KFIN - Bunnell, Florida (Flagler County Airport)
- ^ "Palm Coast Welcomes Florida National Guard to New Flagler Palm Coast Readiness Center".
- ^ Burgess, Phil. "Florida's first NHRA 'national event' was the Winter Nationals? Yep (sorta)". NHRA.COM. National Hot Rod Association. Retrieved 2024-03-03.