Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport
| Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Panama City-Bay County Airport and Industrial District | ||||||||||
| Serves | Panama City / Panama City Beach | ||||||||||
| Location | Bay County, Florida | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 69 ft / 21 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°21′30″N 085°47′44″W / 30.35833°N 85.79556°WCoordinates: 30°21′30″N 085°47′44″W / 30.35833°N 85.79556°W | ||||||||||
| Website | iFlyBeaches.com | ||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations | 51,054 |
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| Based aircraft | 110 |
| Passengers | 791,000 |
The Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (IATA: ECP, ICAO: KECP, FAA LID: ECP) is a public airport 18 miles northwest of Panama City, in Bay County. The airport is owned by the Panama City-Bay County Airport & Industrial District. and is north of Panama City Beach, Florida, near West Bay. It replaced Panama City–Bay County International Airport (Fannin Field, PFN), which was in Panama City.
The airport opened for commercial flights on May 23, 2010 and is the first international airport in the United States designed and built since the September 11 attacks. The airport currently has no scheduled international flights, due to the small population in the surrounding areas and the fact that the demand for visitation to Panama City is mostly regional and/or national. The airport was to have been called Northwest Florida-Panama City International Airport, but the airlines asked the airport authority to change to a more regional name.
In the late 1990s the Panama City-Bay County Airport and Industrial District (Airport Authority) started looking for ways to increase the air service in the Panama City area. Proposed ideas included using the current airport property and extending the current short runways into St. Andrews Bay or into residential neighborhoods, relocation of the airport to a new site, or collocation with Tyndall AFB. With strong opposition to extending the runways into an environmentally sensitive bay or into neighborhoods, the airport authority began to search for relocation sites. The authority received tentative approval to relocate the airport to northwestern Bay County in 2001. In 2005–2007 the authority obtained the needed permits.
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