Palm Coast, FL Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

Code of Ordinances Chapter 35, Article II, Division 2 contains no aircraft-specific noise section, and Palm Coast cannot enforce one. Federal law - the Federal Aviation Act (49 U.S.C. § 40103), the Airline Deregulation Act, and the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 (ANCA, 49 U.S.C. §§ 47521-47534) - gives the FAA exclusive authority over navigable airspace and over operational restrictions on in-flight aircraft. Local governments cannot impose curfews, decibel caps, or flight-path mandates on overflying aircraft. The major aircraft-noise source for Palm Coast is Flagler Executive Airport (FAA LID: FIN; ICAO: KFIN), a county-owned public-use general-aviation airport located about 6 miles south of Palm Coast in Bunnell. KFIN has experienced significant noise controversy since the late 2010s as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and other Daytona-area flight schools began using KFIN for touch-and-go training operations (often >500 daily operations, ~450 from flight schools). The Flagler County Board of County Commissioners, which owns KFIN, has been pressed by Palm Coast residents (notably the 'Peace for Palm Coast' coalition) to restrict touch-and-go flights, but airport officials have publicly stated that federal law and the airport's federal-grant 'assurances' bar mandatory operational restrictions. KFIN is designated a 'Noise Sensitive Area' with voluntary noise-abatement procedures (preferred runways, preferred patterns, voluntary restraint on touch-and-go operations 0300-1200Z). Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) is ~30 miles south and contributes intermittent commercial-jet overflights. Aircraft-noise complaints go to the Flagler County Airport (KFIN) administration or the FAA, not to Palm Coast Code Enforcement.