Okeechobee County Airport is a general aviation airport located 3 mi (4.82 km) northwest of Okeechobee, in unincorporated Okeechobee County, Florida.
The airport was opened in April 1940 as Conners Field. It was leased by the United States Army Air Corps in 1941 as an auxiliary training field, and used by the Hendricks Army Airfield B-17 Flying Fortress training school near Sebring during World War II. The runways and other facilities were improved by the Army, and the airport was used for training touch-and-go landings landings and emergencies. No permanent military units or personnel were assigned. With the end of the war in 1945, the site was returned for civil use.
Since then, Okeechobee has been operated as a general aviation airport. The Florida Division of Forestry has a base at the airport.
The airport has two runways, both paved with asphalt. Runway 5/23 measures 5,000 ft x 100 ft (1524 x 30 m); runway 14/32 measures 4001 x 75 ft (1220 x 23 m). Both runways have full-length parallel taxiways.
The airport has a fixed-base operator that sells fuelâÂÂboth avgas and jet fuelâÂÂand offers it 24 hours per day. Services such as hangars and courtesy cars are available; there are also amenities such as internet, a crew lounge, and snooze rooms.
Local pilots and aircraft owners have access to t-hangars and box hangars.