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Flagler Executive Airport (KFIN) is a county-owned general aviation airport three miles east of Bunnell, Florida, built by the US Navy during the Second World War as an outlying training field. It offers two lit hard-surfaced runways and a Level 1 contract air traffic control tower, and today ranks among the busiest general aviation fields in Florida thanks to heavy training traffic from nearby Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Phoenix East Aviation.
Flagler Executive Airport, identified as KFIN, is a county-owned public-use general aviation airport serving Bunnell in Flagler County, Florida. Originally built as a Navy outlying training field, it is now a busy general aviation facility notable for its high volume of flight training traffic, making it an interesting and active destination for a simulator pilot flying the central Florida coast.
The airport lies about three miles east of the central business district of Bunnell, Florida, within Flagler County. It sits within the wider central Florida general aviation environment that includes nearby Daytona Beach International Airport, home to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, whose students make heavy use of Flagler Executive as a practice field.
Flagler Executive has two paved physical runways. Runway 06/24 is 4,984 feet long with a hard surface and runway lighting. Runway 11/29 is 4,980 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. There is no ILS approach at the field.
The airport is served by an FAA Level 1 Contract Air Traffic Control Tower, operating from 7am to 8pm, 365 days a year. There is no ILS instrument approach available at the field.
The airport is located roughly three miles east of Bunnell's central business district, providing a useful reference point for pilots approaching from the town itself.
The airfield originated during the Second World War as Naval Outlying Field Bunnell, an auxiliary training airfield supporting flight operations from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, NAS Daytona Beach and NAS DeLand. After the war it passed from Navy control to Flagler County, becoming a general aviation airport. In 1960 it hosted the inaugural NHRA Winter Nationals, jointly sanctioned with NASCAR as part of Speed Weeks for the Daytona 500, and it later served as a filming location for the 1990 film Days of Thunder. The airport was renamed from Flagler County Airport to Flagler Executive Airport on 20 April 2015, following completion of around 22 million dollars of improvement projects over the preceding six years, including construction of a new control tower. In October 2020 it also became home to the Flagler Palm Coast Army Readiness Center, supporting Army Reserve and Florida Army National Guard units, with a ramp capable of handling UH-60 Blackhawk, CH-47 Chinook and C-130 Hercules aircraft, though no military aircraft are permanently based there.
Flagler Executive functions as a busy general aviation airport under Flagler County ownership and operation. It is heavily used as a practice field by students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and by Phoenix East Aviation, which maintains a base there, and it is cited as the busiest general aviation airport with a contract air traffic control tower in Florida. The tower operates from 7am to 8pm, 365 days a year.
