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For the 12-month period ending ending June 7, 2022, the airport had 26,932 aircraft operations, average 74 per day. It was nearly 100% general aviation as well as <1% air taxi and <1% military. For the same time period, 64 aircraft are based at this airport: 57 single-engine and 6 multi-engine airplanes as well as 1 helicopter.
The facility opened in June 1942 as Lockbourne Army Airfield, named for the nearby village of Lockbourne. [5] [6] Soon renamed the Northeastern Training Center of the Army Air Corps, it provided basic pilot training and military support; it also trained Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to fly B-17 bombers and glider pilots to fly the Waco CG-4A.
The airport was used as a research location for crop dusting aircraft in the 1940s. A Piper J-3 Cub was used for testing until it crashed in 1957 and the project was halted. [5] It became a public-use airport in 1959 upon receipt of federal funding for runway improvements. The first jets were based at the airport in 1962. [5]
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A proposal by members of the Experimental Aircraft Association to build a new museum at Don Scott Field using the collection was made in 2002. [10] However, it never came to fruition. It was initially moved to a 6,000 sq ft (560 m 2 ) warehouse at the airport, but after plans for new museum on the Ohio History Center campus also failed, it was ...
Back in 2009, the "Miracle on the Hudson" involved a bird strike, and a plane taking the same route as Thursday's American Airlines jet. All 155 people were rescued in that incident, and pilot ...
This is a list of airports in Ohio (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
These 4,500 acres are split between the main TRC property and a rural road/ATV course located approximately 2.5 miles from the main property. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has its Vehicle Research and Test Center (VRTC) on TRC property. TRC is the only North American proving ground with a government research and ...