Fairfield County Airport (Ohio)


Fairfield County Airport is a public use airport in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. It is located three nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Lancaster, the county seat. The airport is owned by the Fairfield County Commissioners.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned LHQ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Fairfield County Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 868 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,004 by 75 feet.
For the 12-month period ending May 19, 2009, the airport had 43,066 aircraft operations, an average of 117 per day: 99.8% general aviation and 0.2% military. At that time there were 98 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine, 7% multi-engine, 7% helicopter and 1% ultralight.
Currently there is one Standard Terminal Arrival, an RNAV GPS approach in to runway 10 and 28, a localizer for 28 and a VOR or GPS-A circling approach.
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