Kent State University Airport is a public

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Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in ...

. The airport is located along State Route 59 (Kent Road) approximately three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of

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. Besides being a public airport, the Kent State University Airport is used by the College of Aeronautics and Engineering for its in-house Aeronautics program which provides flight training and other professional aeronautical training including Air Traffic Control and Airport Management studies to enrolled Kent State University students. The airport also operates a Flight Clinic for the general public who are interested in attaining private pilot instruction. Kent State had a leading Pilot Training Bridge Program with

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designed to help highly skilled and qualified students migrate as a pilot into the airline industry. In early 2019 the airport received a 5 million dollar grant from FedEx for expansion, including the creation of a new aeronautics center.

Facilities and aircraft

Kent State University Airport covers an area of which contains one

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. * Runway 1/19: 4,000 x 60 ft (1,219 x 18 m), Surface: Asphalt For the 12-month period ending August 11, 2017, the airport had 72,500 aircraft operations, an average of 198 per day: 97%

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, 2%

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and <1% military. There are 41 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine and 4% multi-engine.

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20140826200040/http://www2.kent.edu/caest/undergraduate/aeronautics/index.cfm

External links

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