Pompano Beach Airpark is a public airport located one mile northeast of the central business district of Pompano Beach, in Broward County, Florida, United States. This airport is publicly owned by City of Pompano Beach.This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of PMP by the Federal Aviation Administration, but the International Air Transport Association airport code is PPM . The International Civil Aviation Organization airport code is KPMP.HistoryPompano Beach Airport was constructed during World War II as an outlying field for Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, what is now the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. On August 29, 1947, the City of Pompano Beach obtained the Airport under the Surplus Property Act of 1944 and renamed it Pompano Beach Air Park, due to its intent to limit the airport's usage to general aviation. For the same reason, the City shortened Runway 15–33 from its original length of 5000ft to its current length of 4418ft in 1971.Additional lands surrounding the Air Park, including land along Copans Road and the Florida East Coast Railway tracks to the west of the Air Park, were transferred to the City on June 24, 1948, bringing the total acreage at the Air Park to 1035acre. On August 5, 1958, 10acre of Air Park property were released to the Broward County School Board for the construction of Pompano Beach Elementary School. The County received 9 more acres on September 18, 1967. On March 8, 1958, the City sold 60acre, located in the northeast corner of the Air Park Property, for development of the Pompano Square Mall. The final transfer of Air Park property occurred in 1981 when 10acre in the southwestern section of the Air Park Property were purchased by the Pompano Elks Club. These transfers account for the current total 946acre of the Air Park.
