Lake Wales Municipal Airport

Lake Wales Municipal Airport

Lake Wales Army Airfield
Lake Wales Municipal Airport; Lake Wales Army Airfield
	2006 USGS airphoto
	IATA: none; ICAO: none; FAA LID: X07;
Summary
Airport type	Public use
Owner	City of Lake Wales
Operator	Mark R. Mc Duff
Serves	Lake Wales, Florida
Location	Lake Wales, Florida
Elevation AMSL	127 ft / 39 m
Coordinates	27°53′37″N 081°37′13″W / 27.89361°N 81.62028°W
Map
	X07 Location of Lake Wales Municipal Airport X07 X07 (the United States)
Runways
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations (year ending 7/25/2018)
Aircraft operations (year ending 7/25/2018)	20,000
Based aircraft	18
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Lake Wales Municipal Airport (FAA LID: X07) is a public-use airport located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the central business district of the city of Lake Wales in Polk County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned.^[1]

Overview

The airport's service area includes the cities of Lake Wales, Dundee, Eagle Lake, Fort Meade, Frostproof, Highland Park, Hillcrest Heights, and Lake Hamilton. Typical operations conducted at the airport are local and transient general aviation, localized recreational glider activity, and skydiving. Presently there are no air carrier, commuter or air taxi operations conducted at the airport.

The airport's current role and classification are listed in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport System (NPIAS) as a General Utility General Aviation Airport capable of accommodating virtually all general aviation aircraft with maximum gross takeoff weights of 12,500 pounds or less with wingspans up to, but not including, 79 feet.

History

Opened in 1928 as a civil airport, in 1943 the airport was leased by the United States Army Air Forces as an auxiliary airfield of Sarasota Army Airfield. III Fighter Command used Lake Wales Army Airfield for fighter training of replacement personnel. The Army improved the facility which included the construction of the two present 4,000-foot runways. No permanent units were assigned.

It was inactivated in 1945 and returned to civil control.