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Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport

airport in Florida, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ3888241 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport (IATA: QSK, ICAO: KBKV, FAA LID: BKV), formerly known as Hernando County Airport, is a joint civil-military public airport located 6 nautical miles (11 km) southwest of the central business district of Brooksville, a city in Hernando County, Florida, United States. It is owned by Hernando County and is 45 miles (72 km) north of Tampa. While having consistent growth in its traffic rate, it does not yet serve the public through commercial airlines, but it does have charter and executive service.

This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of BKV by the Federal Aviation Administration, and its International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code QSK .

Facilities and aircraft

Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport covers an area of 2,402 acres (972 ha) which contains two concrete paved runways: 9/27 measuring 7,001 x 150 ft (2,134 x 46 m) and 3/21 measuring 5,014 x 150 ft (1,528 x 46 m). On October 15, 2012, the airport opened a Level I FAA contractor operated air traffic control tower, the first time the airport had had an operational control tower since it was Brooksville Army Airfield during World War II.

For the 12-month period ending December 15, 2017, the airport had 78,000 aircraft operations, an average of 214 per day: 93% general aviation, 6% military and <1% air taxi. There were at the time 181 aircraft based at this airport: 120 single engine, 24 multi-engine, 5 helicopters, 3 gliders, 11 military, 2 ultralights, and 16 jet aircraft.

History

Hernando County Airport was opened in November 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Brooksville Army Airfield, it was used as part of the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics (AAFSAT) tactical combat simulation school in Central and Northern Florida.

Headquartered at Orlando Army Air Base, AAFSAT's mission was to develop tactics and techniques of aerial warfare and to establish technical and tactical proficiency requirements for combat units to effectively engage and defeat enemy air forces.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport” as airport in Florida, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2017, 1942—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Brooksville, Tampa and Regional can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in Florida, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3888241. Authority coordinates are 28.474, -82.456. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2017 and 1942.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.