Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport
Miami's business-jet field, north of downtown and inland from the beaches.
Miami-Opa locka Executive is greater Miami's business-aviation airport. It is north of downtown and inland from the beaches, and it takes the private and corporate traffic that would otherwise crowd Miami International. The ramps are a wall-to-wall lineup of business jets, one of the busiest general-aviation fields in the Southeast. The beach is a drive away, and so is downtown.
Who flies here
OPF is overwhelmingly business and private aviation, from light jets to the large-cabin aircraft that fly Miami's international private traffic. It is the default Miami-area departure field, with the ramp space and the FBO depth for the heaviest weekends of the year.
On the field
The buildings the private flights leave from are the FBOs, each a lobby with a hangar behind it and the ramp beyond. As of mid-2026 the FBOs at Opa-locka include Fontainebleau Aviation, Signature Aviation, and Atlantic Aviation. Fontainebleau's facility is among the largest in the region, the hangar-and-ramp footprint that lets OPF absorb Miami's peak private-jet weekends.
Curtiss and the airships
The aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss founded the airport in 1927. In its early years it was a Navy air station and an airship hub, and the U.S. Navy dirigibles Akron and Macon and Germany's Graf Zeppelin all made well-publicized visits. It has been a center of South Florida flying ever since, down to today's rows of executive jets.
FBO and history details were checked mid-2026 against the airport's and operators' own published information. Tenants change, so confirm the departure terminal with your operator.
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