Peter O. Knight (TPF) Airport Car Service

Professional Peter O. Knight (TPF) Airport Car Service

Peter O. Knight Airport — call sign TPF, pronounced "Peter O" by most local pilots — is one of the most distinctive general aviation airports in Florida. Sitting on the southern tip of Davis Islands in Tampa, it was the city's original municipal airport when it opened in 1935 and remains one of the oldest continuously operating airfields in the state. Today TPF serves as a Hillsborough County Aviation Authority reliever for Tampa International (TPA), with a single 3,580-foot runway, a non-towered Class G airspace operation, and one full-service FBO — Sheltair Aviation, also known as Tampa International Jet Center. There is no commercial airline service. Every arrival is a private aircraft, a charter, a medical mission into Tampa General Hospital, or a corporate flight into the heart of downtown Tampa.

What makes TPF unlike any other airport in the region is location. Davis Islands itself is a curated affluent residential community — the Davis Islands Yacht Club, Davis Islands Tennis Club, and a tight grid of waterfront homes line the streets just north of the runway. Tampa General Hospital, one of the top-ranked academic medical centers in the southeastern United States, operates from the same island. Downtown Tampa, Water Street Tampa, the Tampa Convention Center, Amalie Arena, and Bayshore Boulevard's Hyde Park corridor are all within a five to ten minute drive across the Davis Islands Causeway. We've operated chauffeured Florida airport car service across the state for years, and TPF is one of the airports where ground transportation has to match the aircraft and the address. Union Limousine handles ramp-side pickup at Sheltair, medical mission coordination at TGH, and the short-but-precise downtown transfers TPF clients arrive for.

Reliable Transportation to and from TPF

Pickup at Peter O. Knight Airport happens at the Sheltair / Tampa International Jet Center ramp on the south side of the field. Our chauffeurs coordinate with the Sheltair line crew the same way they do at TPA, BCT, and TMB — the aircraft is on blocks, the passenger steps off, the bags move from the cabin to the trunk, and the driver has the routing locked. There is no terminal to walk through. There is no commercial pickup lane. The chauffeur waits at the FBO ramp area or the Sheltair lobby, depending on what the principal prefers.

TPF is non-towered — pilots self-announce on the CTAF — which means arrival timing can shift more than at a tower-controlled field. We track tail numbers, not just scheduled arrival windows, and stay flexible. For Tampa General Hospital medical missions, the rhythm is different again: pickup timing flexes around a patient's medical schedule rather than a flight plan, and our dispatch is set up for that kind of coordination. A patient family flying in for a TGH transplant consult at 2 PM does not want to be standing on the ramp watching us coordinate at 1:55.

Why Choose Our TPF Car Service

TPF clients arrive in Tampa expecting the chauffeured side of the trip to operate at the same standard as the aircraft. Most rideshare and taxi services either don't know the field, don't have the FBO relationship, or won't run the short-distance, high-touch trip TPF requires. Here is how we differ:

• Fixed pricing — flat rate quoted before booking. No surge during Bucs game weekends, Lightning playoffs, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, or Tampa Convention Center event weeks.
• Tail number tracking — flight plan monitored, not just a scheduled arrival window. Important at a non-towered airport where actual arrival can vary.
• Sheltair FBO coordination — direct line crew handoff at Tampa International Jet Center with chauffeurs the staff already recognize.
• Tampa General Hospital medical mission scheduling — flexible pickup windows, quiet vehicles, and discreet handling for patient and family transfers on Davis Islands.
• Discreet, uniformed chauffeurs — trained for executive, medical, and high-profile clientele.
• Premium fleet — Mercedes Maybach, Cadillac Escalade ESV, Bentley, and Sprinter vans on standby for full-aircraft party arrivals.
• 24/7 dispatch — including overnight medical missions and pre-dawn corporate departures.

Corporate flight department accounts include consolidated billing across multiple aircraft and principals, dedicated chauffeurs for primary travelers, and priority dispatch on Tampa event weeks — Bucs Sunday home games at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa Bay Lightning playoff runs at Amalie Arena, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in late January, the Outback Bowl, and major Tampa Convention Center conferences.

Our Fleet Options

Common TPF assignments:

• Executive sedans — Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7 Series, Cadillac XTS — solo principals, downtown Tampa business meetings, Hyde Park residence arrivals.
• Luxury SUVs — Cadillac Escalade ESV, Lincoln Navigator L — families with luggage, multi-bag executive arrivals, Davis Islands residence transfers.
• Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans — full-aircraft party arrivals, family office groups, Tampa wedding parties arriving via private aircraft, Convention Center delegation transfers.
• Mercedes Maybach and Bentley — VIP arrivals, downtown Tampa premiere transport, ultra-premium occasions for Davis Islands and Hyde Park clientele.
• Stretch limousines — Tampa destination weddings, Davis Islands Yacht Club celebrations, Lightning playoff VIP transfers, milestone arrivals.

Popular Routes and Nearby Areas We Serve

Drive times listed are typical traffic across the Davis Islands Causeway. Most TPF transfers are short downtown hops — that is the whole point of the airport — but we also handle the longer Tampa Bay regional routes when needed.

• Tampa General Hospital (TGH) — about 3 minutes within Davis Islands.
• Davis Islands Yacht Club, Davis Islands Tennis Club, and the Davis Islands residential grid — about 5 minutes.
• Downtown Tampa Central Business District (Bank of America Plaza, 100 North Tampa, Sykes Enterprises HQ, Lykes Bros) — about 8 minutes via Davis Islands Causeway and Bayshore Boulevard.
• Water Street Tampa, Amalie Arena (Tampa Bay Lightning), and Sparkman Wharf — about 7 minutes.
• Tampa Convention Center and the Tampa Riverwalk — about 6 minutes.
• Hyde Park, Hyde Park Village, and Bayshore Boulevard residential corridor — about 8 minutes.
• South Howard (SoHo) restaurant and bar district — about 10 minutes.
• Channelside District — about 7 minutes.
• Ybor City historic district (cigar factories, Centro Ybor) — about 12 minutes.
• Tampa International Airport (TPA) cross-airport transfer — about 20 minutes.
• Raymond James Stadium (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) — about 18 minutes.
• USF main campus and the Moffitt Cancer Center — about 25 minutes.
• St. Petersburg, downtown St. Pete, and the St. Pete Pier — about 30 minutes via Howard Frankland Bridge.
• Clearwater Beach and the Pinellas beach corridor — about 45 minutes.

TPF to Tampa General Hospital is the shortest airport-to-hospital transfer in Florida — three minutes within Davis Islands. TPF to downtown Tampa CBD is the shortest airport-to-downtown transfer of any Tampa Bay airport. The airport car service we run from TPF is built around exactly these short, high-stakes downtown and Davis Islands trips that every other airport in the region adds 15 to 30 minutes to.

Book Your Ride to and from TPF

Booking is direct. Share the tail number, expected on-blocks time at Sheltair, and destination. At Union Limousine, we secure your chauffeur’s name, vehicle, and locked rate within minutes. For corporate flight departments, family offices, and Tampa General Hospital medical mission coordinators routing through TPF more than a few times a year, an account setup takes minutes and every future booking is seconds.

For Gasparilla Pirate Festival weekend (late January), the Outback Bowl (early January), Bucs home games during the playoff push, and Lightning playoff runs at Amalie Arena, book at least two weeks ahead. TPF inventory tightens during these windows — Davis Islands Causeway access alone is a routing variable worth planning around.