Merritt Island Airport

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Merritt Island Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerTitusville-Cocoa Airport Authority
Location900 Airport Road
Merritt Island, Florida
Elevation  AMSL 5.9 ft / 1.8 m
Coordinates 28°20′30″N080°41′08″W / 28.34167°N 80.68556°W / 28.34167; -80.68556
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
11/293,6011,098 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, United States, northwest of Patrick Space Force Base.

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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: a north–south strip measuring approximately 1,800 feet (550 m) in length, and a northwest–southeast strip measuring approximately 3,000 feet (910 m) 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.

In 1966, the Brevard County Mosquito Control District 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. [1] [2] Central Brevard Airport was renamed Merritt Island Airport and became a public general aviation facility some time after initial construction took place in 1970 and facilities were completed in 1974. [1] [3]

Facilities

Merritt Island Airport taxiway on the left with runway 11 on the right Merritt Island Airport (Merritt Island, Florida) 002.jpg
Merritt Island Airport taxiway on the left with runway 11 on the right
Merritt Island Airport in relation to the rest of Merritt Island Merritt Island 2.JPG
Merritt Island Airport in relation to the rest of Merritt Island

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

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Accidents and incidents

On January 24, 2021, a man identified as 24 year old Abhishek Patter, a pilot from India who was training for his commercial airline pilot's license, crashed a plane, a Piper PA-28, on nearby waters as he was flying from Palm Beach County Park Airport to Merritt Island Airport. The 24-year-old was a student at 2Fly Airborne flight school in Merritt Island according to officials in Brevard County. [9] His body was found later by rescuers. He was the sole occupant of the aircraft when it crashed. [10]

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