Boca Raton Airport (BCT) (Boca Raton, Florida)

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A general aviation airport located in the city of Boca Raton, Florida, United States. The airport is immediately adjacent to Florida Atlantic University and to Interstate 95. It has a control tower which is manned from 7:00am to 11:00pm. The airport has two full service fixed base operators, Avitat of Boca Raton and Boca Raton Aviation. The Burton D. Morgan School of Aeronautics of Lynn University and a flight training school are located at the airport.

The Boca Raton Airport was established in 1936. In 1942, A majority of the land was acquired from Japanese-American farmers from the failing Yamato Colony. The land was seized through the process of eminent domain, leaving many Japanese-Americans little recourse in the early days of World War II. All of these conditions enabled construction of the military airfield to commence in June. In the 1950s part of the air base was developed into Florida Atlantic University, and other parts were returned to private ownership and developed. Only 200 acres were retained for airport use.