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Cat Cay Airport is a small private airfield on North Cat Cay in the Bahamas, operated for the exclusive use of the Cat Cay Yacht Club. With a single short runway and no instrument approach, it is a strictly VFR, permission-only destination for sim pilots exploring the Bimini district.
Cat Cay Airport serves North Cat Cay, a small island in the Bimini district of the Bahamas, and is operated as a private facility for the Cat Cay Yacht Club. Access to the field is restricted to club members or those sponsored by a member, giving it an exclusive, low-traffic character that makes it an unusual and interesting stop for a virtual pilot seeking quiet island strips well away from the busier Bahamian airports. Charter operators, including Tropic Ocean Airways and, in winter, Fly the Whale, have served the field on a charter basis.
The airport sits on North Cat Cay in the Bimini district of the Bahamas, a small island group lying to the west of the main Bahamian chain and within reach of the Florida coast. It is a minor, uncontrolled aerodrome with no nearby major controlled airspace mentioned in available references; pilots should expect Bahamian domestic airspace procedures typical of small out-island strips.
Cat Cay Airport has a single physical runway, 15/33, hard-surfaced and 1,810 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach available, so all operations are conducted visually.
No communications frequencies are published for Cat Cay Airport, and there is no air-ground or air traffic control service on record. Pilots should plan for a self-announced, uncontrolled arrival and departure in the absence of any known radio facility.
No specific joining or circuit procedures, circuit heights, or noise abatement restrictions are published for this airfield. Given its private, low-traffic nature, pilots should fly a standard visual circuit appropriate to the runway in use and remain alert for other traffic in the absence of any ATC or A/G service.
No published visual reporting points are available for Cat Cay Airport. The island of North Cat Cay itself, surrounded by open water within the Bimini district, serves as the primary visual landmark for locating the field.
Cat Cay Airport was built to serve North Cat Cay and has long been tied to the Cat Cay Yacht Club, for whose members and their guests it remains reserved. The field has historically been served on a charter basis, including by Tropic Ocean Airways and, seasonally, by Fly the Whale.
The airfield remains a private facility restricted to Cat Cay Yacht Club members or those sponsored by a member, and prior permission is required before any flight. It continues to be used for charter access to the club, with no public commercial services based there.