Merritt Island Airport

IATA: COI – ICAO: KCOI – FAA LID: COI

Summary

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 / 28.34167°N 80.68556°W

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
11/29	3,601	1,098	Asphalt

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.

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

Merritt Island Airport runway

Merritt Island Airport covers 129 acres (52 ha) and has one runway:

Runway 11/29: 3,601 x 75 ft. (1,098 x 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)

↑ http://www.flairport.com/home.htm

External links

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 latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

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