Dayton–Wright Brothers Airport is a public
airport located 10 miles (16 km) south of the
central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
of
Dayton
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Da ...
,
Ohio, located mainly in
Miami Township, Montgomery County and partly in
Clearcreek Township, Warren County, near the suburb of
Springboro. It is owned and operated by the City of Dayton
and serves as the reliever airport for
Dayton International Airport
Dayton International Airport (officially James M. Cox Dayton International Airport), formerly Dayton Municipal Airport and James M. Cox-Dayton Municipal Airport, is 10 miles north of downtown Dayton, in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. T ...
. It mainly serves corporate and personal aircraft users. The airport's identifying code, MGY, is a reference to its former name of
Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
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* The former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania
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* The historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, also called County of Montgomery
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Airport.
Facilities and aircraft
Dayton–Wright Brothers Airport covers an area of which contains one
asphalt paved
runway (2/20) measuring 5,000 x 100 ft (1,524 x 30 m). The airport has instrument landing facilities, but does not have a control tower.
For the 12-month period ending September 2, 2016, the airport had 89,045 aircraft operations, an average of 244 per day: 93%
general aviation (48% general aviation local, 45% general aviation itinerant), 7%
air taxi and <1% military. There are 67 aircraft based at this airport: 73% single engine, 15% multi-engine, 3%
helicopter and 9% jet.
The airport facilities also include a runway equipped with a partial precision approach consisting of a
localizer
An instrument landing system localizer, or simply localizer (LOC), is a system of horizontal guidance in the instrument landing system, which is used to guide aircraft along the axis of the runway.
Principle of operation
In aviation, a localiz ...
(LOC),
approach lighting system
An approach lighting system (ALS) is a lighting system installed on the approach end of an airport runway and consisting of a series of lightbars, strobe lights, or a combination of the two that extends outward from the runway end. ALS usually ...
(MALS),
runway lighting (MIRL) and a visual approach slope indicator (VASI), 68 T-hangars, 6 conventional hangars, . maintenance facility and administration building.
Historic replicas
On the airport grounds is a replica of the
Wright brothers'
Huffman Prairie
Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place w ...
hangar, containing a museum and replica
Wright B Flyer. The museum is open to the public during limited hours.
References
External links
Dayton–Wright Brothers Airport
Airports in Ohio
Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Ohio
Transportation in Dayton, Ohio
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