Merritt Island Airport
Merritt Island Airport (IATA: COI, ICAO: KCOI, FAA LID: COI) is a general aviation public airport under the administration of the Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority. It located in Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida, USA, northwest of Patrick Air Force Base.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority | ||||||||||
Location | 900 Airport Road Merritt Island, Florida | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 7 ft / 2.1 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 28°20′30″N 080°41′08″W | ||||||||||
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History
In the early 1940s, the Brevard County Mosquito Control District constructed the Central Brevard Airport. The airfield included two sod landing strips:
(1) a north-south strip measuring approximately 1,800 feet in length; and, (2) a northwest southeast strip measuring approximately 3,000 feet in length.
An operations building and maintenance hangar were located on the south side of the airfield and the Mosquito Control District had a maintenance hangar on the north side of the airfield. The north-south landing strip was eventually abandoned, replaced by various facilities such as T-hangars that currently occupy this area. The Brevard County Mosquito Control District subsequently deeded the Central Brevard Airport property over to the Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority in exchange for ten acres of land located within Space Coast Regional Airport. Central Brevard Airport was renamed Merritt Island Airport and became a public general aviation facility.[1]
Facilities
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Merritt Island Airport covers 129 acres (52 ha) and has one runway:
- Runway 11/29: 3,601 ft × 75 ft (1,098 m × 23 m), Surface: asphalt
Government Activities
- Brevard County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit
Businesses
- Space Coast Aviation Merritt Island's FBO
- Airborne Career Academy offers advanced international flight training.
- Aerocomp, an airplane manufacturer is located at the Merritt Island Airport.
- Baer Air offers aircraft charters and has a base at the airport.
- Voyager Aviation International offers flight training.
- Sebastian Communication Inc. Avionics sales, installation & repairs.
- AeroDyne Detail, LLC
References
- Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority (official site)
- FAA Airport Master Record for COI (Form 5010 PDF)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2006-06-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Merritt Island Airport. |
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for COI
- AirNav airport information for KCOI
- ASN accident history for COI
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures