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24-1091: For the airport in Florida with the ICAO airport code KOPF, see Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport . [REDACTED] Look up Kopf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kopf ( German : head ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abigail Kopf , American mass shooting survivor David Kopf , American research scholar on South Asian history Herb Kopf (1901–1996), American football coach Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1893–1961), German politician Jakub Kopf (1915–1983), Polish basketball player Karlheinz Kopf (born 1957), Austrian politician Larry Kopf (1890–1986), American baseball player Silas Kopf (born 1949), American furniture maker Richard G. Kopf (born 1946), American federal judge Wally Kopf (1899–1979), German American professional baseball player See also [ edit ] Kemptner Kopf ,

48-606: A Native American name that translates into the high land north of the little river with a camping place. In late 1925, he moved the Florida Aviation Camp from Hialeah to a parcel west of Opa-locka. This small airfield was surrounded by the Opa-locka Golf Course. In 1929, he transferred the land to the City of Miami , which erected a World War I surplus hangar from Key West . The field became known as

72-461: A mountain of Bavaria, Germany Siplinger Kopf , a mountain of Bavaria, Germany Wiedemer Kopf , a mountain of Bavaria, Germany Niedensteiner Kopf , a mountain of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany Mappershainer Kopf , a mountain peak in the Taunus range, Hesse, Germany Corrina Kopf , a celebrity infamous for her spicy actions [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

96-649: A non-scheduled service. Analogous regulations generally also apply to air ambulance and cargo operators, which are often also ad hoc for-hire services. In the United States, these flights are regulated under FAA Part 135. There are some cases where a charter operator can sell scheduled flights, but only in limited quantities. As of 2021, the FAA had made it a priority to crack down on unauthorised charter flights, according to industry experts. There are several business models which offer air charter services from

120-603: A parcel of land north of the golf course and the Florida Aviation Camp to the city of Miami. The city then leased it to the United States Navy . Curtiss had been lobbying for the establishment of the Naval Reserve Base in Miami since 1928, and this property became a Naval Reserve Aviation Training Base (NRATB), which later became an active installation renamed Naval Air Station Miami . The installation

144-414: A practice run to test-ship a hundred kilos of cocaine in a twin-engine Piper Seneca plane. It arrived at Opa Locka Airport, a private airport in the heart of Miami used exclusively by wealthy Americans, without a hitch." Subsequently, he wrote, "because they'd already successfully landed a shipment there, for more than a year Miami's Opa Locka Airport was my father's drug-trafficking destination." Some of

168-467: A strike installation against Soviet and Cuban forces. In 1965, Coast Guard Air Station Miami transferred its aircraft and operations from its Dinner Key seaplane installation to the Opa-locka Airport, re-establishing CGAS Miami on site. CGAS Miami continues to operate on site with EADS HC-144 Ocean Sentry fixed-wing aircraft and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters. For the year 1963, Opa-locka

192-422: Is 8,002 by 150 feet (2,439 by 46 m); 9R/27L is 4,309 by 100 feet (1,313 by 30 m); 12/30 is 6,800 by 150 feet (2,073 by 46 m). Fire protection is provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department Station 25. In the year ending May 24, 2017 the airport had 147,638 operations, average 404 per day: 87% general aviation , 6% military, 6% air taxi , and <1% airline. 171 aircraft were then based at

216-523: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport The FAA-contract control tower is staffed from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM. The airport has four fixed-base operators. It is owned by Miami-Dade County and operated by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department . The sole remaining military activity at the airport is Coast Guard Air Station Miami , operating from federal property not deeded to

240-446: Is served by several cargo and charter airlines that use the U.S. customs facility. Maintenance and modification of airliners up to Boeing 747 size is carried out by several aviation firms. Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss retired from aircraft development and manufacturing in the 1920s and became a real estate developer in Florida. In 1926, he founded the city of Opa-locka , naming it Opa-tisha-woka-locka (quickly shortened to Opa-locka),

264-572: The Department of Defense for use as an additional staging base for U.S. strike forces, augmenting the active duty air force bases and naval air stations in Florida in the event the crisis led to war. United States Air Force civil engineers from the Tactical Air Command (TAC) arrived at the airfield late in the evening of October 22 and proceeded to work around the clock. In one instance, TAC civil engineering personnel rehabilitated

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288-471: The Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter were some of the aircraft based at the facility. In addition to serving as headquarters for the 7th Naval District, the station supported a naval air gunnery school, a Marine Corps Air Station, a Coast Guard Station, and a small craft training center. The peak complement, reached in 1945, consisted of 7,200 officers and men and 3,100 civilian employees. Postwar,

312-563: The hijackers in the September 11 attacks trained at the airport. On October 7, 2014, the Miami-Dade County Commission voted to change the name of the airport to "Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport" as part of a rebranding scheme of all Miami-area airports to include the name "Miami". The airport covers 1,880 acres (761 ha ) at an elevation of 8 feet (2.4 m). It has three asphalt runways : 9L/27R

336-451: The surname Kopf . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kopf&oldid=1255234027 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing German-language text Articles with short description Short description

360-601: The Municipal Blimp Hangar. The following year, the Goodyear Blimp started operating out of this hangar. In 1928, Curtiss made a separate donation of land two miles south of Opa-locka for Miami's first Municipal Airport. The Curtiss Aviation School later moved from Biscayne Bay to this airport. A larger area to the east of Miami Municipal Airport was developed during the 1930s as All-American Airport . After Curtiss died in 1930, his estate transferred

384-467: The aging petroleum, oil and lubricants (POL) fuel farm and distribution infrastructure originally constructed by the Navy in the 1940s, bringing the facility to fully operational status in just 3½ days. Other airfield and air base support improvements were also implemented to support tactical aircraft operations. However, the crisis passed through diplomatic means and the airfield was never required to serve as

408-533: The airport: 46% single-engine, 26% multi-engine, 21% jet, 4% helicopter , and 3% military. Air charter Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering ) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline ). Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flights require certification from the associated country's civil aviation authority . The regulations are differentiated from typical commercial/passenger service by offering

432-464: The county. It hosts EADS HC-144 Ocean Sentry turboprops; and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters for coastal patrol, deployment aboard medium endurance and high endurance coast guard cutters, and air-sea rescue . Much of CGAS Miami's facilities were built during World War II as part of Naval Air Station Miami . DayJet provided on-demand jet air charter services to 44 airports in 5 states; it filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 2008. The airport

456-416: The installation returned to its former role as a Naval Air Reserve and Marine Air Reserve installation, but retained the name NAS Miami and the colloquial name of Master Field. Following the departure of the United States Navy , but the retention of U.S. Marine Corps Reserve flying and aviation support units, Master Field became Marine Corps Air Station Miami (MCAS Miami) on February 15, 1952. MCAS Miami

480-635: The site in 1961. In 1962, the remainder of the former Naval Air Station Miami/Marine Corps Air Station Miami property, except for a portion reserved for the United States Coast Guard for establishment of a new coast guard air station, was transferred to Dade County and became Opa-locka Airport. However, events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 led to much of the former air station again being requisitioned by

504-575: The traditional charter operator to brokers and jet card programs: Charter aircraft categories include: There are an estimated 15,000 business jets available for charter in the world. The US market is the largest, followed by the European market with growing activity in the Middle East, Asia, and Central America. Some charter airlines have employed other types of jets, including Airbus , Boeing , and McDonnell Douglas mainline airliners such as

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528-458: Was extremely active during World War II and saw significant military construction on the main base as well as several additional auxiliary airfields in the general area. Much of this construction is still in existence today. Training in fighter, dive-bombing and torpedo bombing skills took place at various times during the base's operation. The Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber, Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, and

552-507: Was the 42nd busiest civil airport in the country by total operations count. In 1964, it was ranked eighteenth, in 1965, it was third, and in 1966 and 1967, it was second behind O'Hare. In 1971, it was down to seventeenth. In 1979, 551,873 operations were recorded, making it the seventh busiest airport in the nation. According to Sebastián Marroquín (born Juan Pablo Escobar), his father Pablo Escobar and cousin Gustavo Gaviria "did

576-517: Was the home of the 3d Marine Aircraft Wing from May 1952 until September 1955. With the transfer of Marine Air Reserve squadrons and support units to Naval Air Station Jacksonville , Florida in 1958 and 1959, MCAS Miami was marked for closure and the air station closed as a Department of the Navy installation in 1959. Much of the former military property was transferred to Dade County and the Dade County Junior College opened on

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