Vero Beach Regional Airport

Coordinates: 27°39′20″N 080°25′04.60″W / 27.65556°N 80.4179444°W / 27.65556; -80.4179444
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Vero Beach Regional Airport
AMSL
24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates27°39′20″N 080°25′04.60″W / 27.65556°N 80.4179444°W / 27.65556; -80.4179444
Websitewww.verobeachairport.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram
FAA airport diagram
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
04/22 4,974 1,516 Asphalt
12L/30R 3,504 1,068 Asphalt
12R/30L 7,314 2,229 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations (year ending 1/31/2021)116,781
Based aircraft212

Vero Beach Regional Airport (IATA: VRB, ICAO: KVRB, FAA LID: VRB) is a public airport one mile northwest of Vero Beach in Indian River County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned and is the home of Piper Aircraft.[1]

History

1929–1941

In 1929, Bud Holman, whose sons and grandsons now operate Sun Aviation, was one of the group that built the airport in Vero Beach.

Civil Aviation Administration spent $250,000 on more improvements.[citation needed
]

NAS Vero Beach

In 1942 the

SB2A Buccaneer aircraft
.

In December 1944 the mission of NAS Vero Beach changed to night fighter training using

Woman Marines. After the war, the installation was reduced to a skeletal staff and in 1947 the Navy closed NAS Vero Beach and returned it to the city for use again as a civil airport.[6][7]

Postwar

In 1948

Dodgertown was born, a 110-acre (0.45 km2) tract next to the airport, as their training grounds.[9] The Dodgers continued to use the facility even after becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers until they moved to a new facility in Glendale, Arizona in 2008.[10]

In 1957 Piper Aircraft selected Vero Beach for a research and development center at the former naval air station; in 1961 Piper moved administrative and manufacturing operations here. By 1967 Piper had expanded its facility to 11 acres (45,000 m2) and its workforce to over 2,000.[11] Manufacturing of Piper Aircraft at the Vero Beach facility ceased in the mid-1980s when increasing product liability insurance premiums made continued operation financially impossible. Upon limitation of liability by new legislation by United States Congress in the early 1990s, manufacturing began again in 1995.

Skyborne Airline Academy, a leading flight training school, is also based at Vero Beach Regional Airport. The company purchased and rebranded the FlightSafety Academy in 2021 in order to expand its flight training to the United States.[12] The flight school's focus is to provide a dynamic, engaging, and welcoming flight training environment.[13]

Today, Vero Beach Regional Airport is a 1,707-acre (6.91 km2) tower-controlled facility with an FAR Part 139 operating certificate.[1] The airport has seen commercial passenger service from mainly regional airlines in the past including USAir Express flights to Melbourne and Orlando in the 1990's.[14] However, commercial service ended for nearly two decades when American Eagle flew its last flight to Miami in February 1996. Elite Airways began operating flights from the airport in 2015 but stopped indefinitely in 2022.[4]

The airport currently has scheduled non-stop service on Breeze Airways to Hartford, Providence, Long Island and White Plains.[15][16] Vero Beach is one of the few commercial airports in the United States to offer free long-term parking for up to 21 days.[17]

Airline and destinations

AirlinesDestinationsRefs
Breeze Airways Hartford, Providence, White Plains
Seasonal: Long Island/Islip
[18]

See also

References

  1. ^
    PDF
    , effective 2023-7-13
  2. ^
    TC Palm
    . Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Sun Aviation Buys Assets Of Vero Beach Avionics | Aero-News Network". www.aero-news.net. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  4. ^
    TC Palm
    . Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  5. ^ "History of Vero Beach, Sebastian & Indian River County". www.verobeach.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  6. ^ "NAS Vero Beach: VERO BEACH MUNICIPAL AIRPORT". Museum of Florida History. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  7. ^ "A Guide to the U. S. Naval Air Station at Vero Beach" (PDF). Indian River County Main Library. 3 August 2011.
  8. TC Palm
    . Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  9. TC Palm
    . Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Dodgers officially say goodbye to Vero Beach, will train in Arizona in '09". Associated Press. July 14, 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Grace Baptist - Vero Beach". www.gracebaptistverobeach.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  12. ^ Rosenberg, Arnie. "British aviation school to buy its first flight school here, rename it Skyborne Airline Academy Vero Beach". TCPalm. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  13. ^ "About Skyborne". Skyborne. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Airport Code info". www.airportcode.info. Retrieved 2016-05-18.[permanent dead link]
  15. TC Palm
    . Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  16. ^ Parker, Paul. "Breeze Airways adds two Florida destinations from T.F. Green. Here's where they're flying". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  17. ^ "Parking". Vero Beach Airport. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  18. ^ "Breeze Airways". www.flybreeze.com. Retrieved December 19, 2022.

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