Keystone Heights Airport


Keystone Airpark, also known as Keystone Heights Airport, is a public use airport located 9 miles south of the City of Starke in Bradford County, Florida, United States. The airport is situated in Bradford County and Clay County
Owned by the Keystone Airpark Authority, this airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
The airport is adjacent to Camp Blanding, the Florida National Guard Reservation and "Fly through History" Military Museum and Memorial Park. This museum at Camp Blanding is dedicated to the World War II units that trained there during the early 1940s.

History

The airport was constructed in 1942 as Crystal Lake Airfield, and was commissioned in December 1942 as Keystone Army Airfield by the United States Army Air Forces. It was used as part of the Air University's Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics tactical combat simulation school in Central and Northern Florida.
After the end of World War II, the facility was turned over to the City of Keystone Heights in 1947.

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 2,476 acres at an elevation of 196 feet above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 is 5,046 by 100 feet and 11/29 is 4,899 by 75 feet.
Keystone employs one full-time clerk and one part-time maintenance worker. The airport is home to , and three FAA certified airframe and power plant mechanics. The businesses located on airport property employ approximately 80 people.
For the 12-month period ending September 8, 2009, the airport had 32,400 aircraft operations, an average of 88 per day: 95.7% general aviation, 2.8% military, and 1.5% air taxi. At that time there were 55 aircraft based at this airport: 85.5% single-engine, 5.5% helicopter, 3.6% multi-engine, 3.6% glider, and 1.8% ultralight.