Small Plane Charter Miami

It depends on where the day ends. Bimini is 49 nautical miles from Miami, Freeport 93, Nassau 160 and Key West 112, and a small plane covers them low and without a timetable. The flying time depends on the aircraft, the wind and the strip on arrival, so it arrives with your boarding time once you send the dates.

Yes. The Bahamas is a different country, so every passenger needs a valid passport, plus any visa their nationality requires, and children need documents of their own. We handle the paperwork in both directions, confirm the port of entry and send a checklist after booking. A flight that stays in the Florida Keys crosses no border, so photo identification is enough there.

Small planes use the short, remote fields that bigger aircraft skip, from island strips to regional airports. Each field is checked for your date: runway length, surface, obstacles, the load on the day and the operator's own limits all count, and some private strips need the owner's consent. If an island has no strip, a seaplane flies the same route.

From four points around the city, picked for your ground time and not for the aircraft: Miami Executive, Opa-locka Executive, Miami International and Fort Lauderdale Executive. Tell us where you are staying, and the departure point comes back chosen, together with your boarding time.

On the first arrival in the Bahamas the aircraft clears at a port of entry, so the first landing is a clearing stop and the trip continues once the forms are done. The return clears United States customs before anyone goes home, and for an island day that is usually Opa-locka Executive. None of the paperwork is yours.

Yes, and for the near islands it is the booking we take most. You leave in the morning and return in the evening, and the aircraft waits at the far end instead of flying home empty. Tell the crew your hour. Both borders are filed from our side beforehand, so nothing lands on your list.

More than most guests expect, which is often why they choose a small plane, but the allowance is planned and not assumed. It runs from roughly 850 lbs on the Baron 58 to roughly 2,000 lbs on the Grand Caravan EX, shared with the passengers, and it shrinks with fuel and strip length. Soft bags load best. Dive gear, rods, coolers and golf clubs usually fly if declared at booking.

A small plane depends on visibility, cloud base and wind as much as on the strip, so a departure can shift even on a clear day. We follow the forecast from the day before and tell you as soon as a change looks likely, with a new time, another strip or a different aircraft. The operator and the pilot in command make the safety calls.

Often for Florida legs, sometimes for the Bahamas. An international crossing needs customs notice and a confirmed port of entry, and a private strip needs permission, so both limit how late you can book, as does aircraft availability in season. Send the date and both ends of the trip, and a flight planner tells you what is possible.

It depends on the aircraft: the Baron 58 and the Piper Aztec seat up to five, the King Air C90 and the Cessna 402C up to seven, the Grand Caravan EX up to eight and the Piper Chieftain up to nine. Luggage is carried out of the same weight allowance as the passengers. The aircraft is chartered whole, and a bigger party flies as a second plane or a second leg, agreed before the date.

Often, and that is what the aircraft is for, but every field is judged individually. Runway length, surface, obstacles, the load that day and the operator's limits decide, so we check it for your date instead of promising it on a page. If a strip is not the right call, a nearby field or a seaplane steps in.

Yes. Every South Florida airport reaches the same islands, and once the drive is counted the difference between them is small. Choose the one nearest to where you stay, not the one nearest to the island. Tell us where the morning starts and the departure point comes back chosen, together with the boarding time.

Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.

A charter is priced per aircraft, not per seat. Three things move the price: which aircraft flies your date, how many of you fly once bags are counted and how long the aircraft waits. Distance matters too, which is why we ask for the destination first. Give us those and you receive one all-in number before anything is due.