Columbus Southwest Airport is a privately owned, public use airport located 11

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s (13 mi, 20 km) southwest of the

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of Columbus, in Franklin County, Ohio, United States.

Facilities and aircraft

Columbus Southwest Airport covers an area of 14

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s (6 ha) at an elevation of 920 feet (280 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated as runway 6/24. It has a turf surface measuring 2,382 by 120 feet (726 x 37 m). For the 12-month period ending July 26, 2010, the airport had 11,833 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 32 per day. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport, all single- engine airplanes.

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Aerial image as of March 1995
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