Venice Municipal Airport is a general aviation facility.  It is located on 835 acres located along the Gulf of Mexico.   It  has two intersecting 5000 feet runways.    They are 150 feet wide.    It averages 90,000 take offs and landings each year.  It is currently owned by the city of Sarasota.

Venice Municipal Airport was built in the 1940’s by the U.S.  government as a flight training facility.    After the war, the facility was given to the city of Venice