Orlando Sanford International Airport

Orlando Sanford International Airport
Orlando Sanford International Airport, as seen from the air in 2011
IATA: SFB ICAO: KSFB FAA LID: SFB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Sanford Airport Authority
Operator	Airports Worldwide, Inc.
Serves	Greater Orlando
Location	Sanford, Florida
Opened	November 3, 1942; 82 years ago (1942-11-03)
Operating base for	Allegiant Air
Elevation AMSL	55 ft / 17 m
Coordinates	28°46′40″N 081°14′15″W / 28.77778°N 81.23750°W / 28.77778; -81.23750
Website	www.flysfb.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 9C/27C 3,578 1,091 Asphalt 9L/27R 11,002 3,353 Asphalt 9R/27L 5,839 1,780 Asphalt 18/36 6,002 1,829 Asphalt/concrete
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft operations 268,659 Total passengers 2,941,456 Based aircraft 314
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1][2]

Orlando Sanford International Airport (IATA: SFB, ICAO: KSFB, FAA LID: SFB) is in Sanford, Florida, United States, near Orlando. It was built as Naval Air Station Sanford, a Master Jet Base for carrier-based attack and reconnaissance aircraft, and was used by the U.S. Navy until 1969. The airport is owned and operated by the Sanford Airport Authority. It serves as an operating base for Allegiant Air.

Sanford is Orlando's secondary commercial airport, but is farther away from downtown Orlando and Walt Disney World than the primary airport, Orlando International Airport (MCO/KMCO). Because of the affiliation with Orlando, passenger traffic at Sanford was once dominated by European charter services.^[3]

Since 2008, however, a majority of its passenger traffic has been domestic; this is attributable to the entrance of Las Vegas–based Allegiant Air, for which Sanford is a focus city.^[4] Sanford was also a small focus city for the travel marketer Direct Air until the company's demise in 2012.