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Immokalee Regional Airport

The Immokalee Regional Airport has realized some real growth in the past few years and the trend is expected to continue.

Services include two 150/5000 foot runways, a self service 24 hour fuel farm which provides both Avgas and Jet "A" fuel, 24 hour rest rooms and a telephone service, a terminal building that provides a conference room, pilot lounge and flight planning room, rest rooms and DTN weather radar service, an aircraft parking apron that allows for 15 aircraft tie downs, an aerobatic box above the north side of the airport designated for aerobatic flying maneuvers.

Flight instructors find Immokalee Airport a wonderful place for teaching the art of flying.  Aerobatic pilots also use the facility for practice.


Airport-related projects in the planning stage include:

Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) to provide weather information for pilots flying in or out of Immokalee Regional, a runway & taxiway lighting and signs project, remarking of taxiway centerlines and hold line, and a T-hangar project housing 35 more aircraft on the field.  The airport will have the capability of housing 65 aircraft.  The long range plans have been approved for the airport expansion of the east west runway from 5,000 to 7,000 feet and up to a 13,000 feet, construction of U.S. Customs facilities, construction of a large commercial hangar to be utilized by an air cargo operator.


 

Foreign Trade Zone

Immokalee Regional Airport became a Foreign Trade Zone in January 1997.  The U.S. Department of Commerce designation allows companies that manufacture within the industrial park to import raw materials to manufacture their products and export them duty free. Foreign Trade Zone status has been obtained on 60  acres of the airport which maintains port-of-entry status for flights originating from foreign ports.
    
 

Manufacturing Technology Center, Incubator Building Project

Phase I: This project features a 13,000 square foot building, housing ten 1,000 square foot bays and a 3,000 square foot tenant support office, tool room, and hi tech test center. 

Phase II: Calls for construction of another facility within the Foreign Trade Zone, that will house a bonded warehouse, an assembly and a wet painting operation, a navigational aide that will assist pilots in landing safely at night or during inclement weather conditions, and the Loop Road Project, which includes making CR 846 south of the airport a four-lane road. 
 

 

Agriculture in Immokalee

The growing season runs October through May supplying the country with citrus, cucumbers, tomato, peppers, squash, eggplant, cantaloupe, watermelon, and a variety of specialty items.  During this time, the population expands, as thousands of migrant workers from different ethnic groups, (Mexican, Cuban, Haitian, Seminole Indian, Caucasian, African-American, Puerto Rican, and Guatemalan), converge to harvest, row by row and bushel by bushel, Immokalee's harvest.