Miami Seaplane Base

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Miami Seaplane Base
IATA: MPB – ICAO: none – FAA LID: X44
Summary
Airport type Public use
Owner City of Miami Property Mgmt Section
Operator Dimitri Iturria
Serves Miami, Florida
Location Dade County, Florida
Elevation AMSL 0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
NW/SE 15,000 4,572 Water
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations 1,950
Based aircraft 0

Miami Seaplane Base (IATA: MPB, FAA LID: X44) is a public-use seaplane base located 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the central business district of Miami on Watson Island in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The seaplane base is publicly owned.[1]

History

In 1926, Chalk's International Airlines built an air terminal on a landfill island, Watson Island, where it has continued to operate for 75 years. Its scheduled and other flights by flying boats and amphibian aircraft served many points in the Bahamas and other nearby destinations. Chalk's moved its main base to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after the attacks of September 11, 2001, because of security concerns around the Port of Miami-Dade and increased helicopter traffic around Watson Island.

Airlines and Destinations

Airlines Destinations
Cape Air North Bimini Island [2]
Tropic Ocean Airways North Bimini Island

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 FAA Airport Master Record for X44 (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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