Griffing Sandusky Airport

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Griffing Sandusky Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGriffing-Sandusky Airport, Inc.
Serves Sandusky, Ohio
Elevation  AMSL 580 ft / 177 m
Coordinates 41°26′00″N082°39′08″W / 41.43333°N 82.65222°W / 41.43333; -82.65222
Griffing Sandusky Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
18/362,593790Asphalt
9/273,5591,085Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations?
Based aircraft44

Griffing Sandusky Airport( IATA : SKY, ICAO : KSKY, FAA LID : SKY) was a public airport in Erie County, Ohio, next to Sandusky Bay three miles southeast of Sandusky. [1] The airport permanently closed on December 31, 2013 and the FAA A/FD and VFR sectional charts no longer show the airport as open or operational. [2] Instrument approach procedures are no longer available from the FAA's website. All hangars and the entrance were demolished in April, 2016. The Sandusky Register confirmed that the city announced that a sports park called the Cedar Point Sports Center will replace the airport; it opened in spring 2017. [3]

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Facilities and aircraft

The airport covered 133 acres (54 ha) at an elevation of 580 feet (177 m) above mean sea level. It had two asphalt runways: 18/36, 2,593 by 40 feet (790 x 12 m) and 9/27, 3,559 by 60 feet (1,085 x 18 m). [1]

In the year ending May 6, 2008 the airport's operations were distributed as follows: 58% general aviation, 40% air taxi and 1% military. 44 aircraft were then based at this airport: 79.5% single-engine and 20.5% multi-engine airplanes. [1]

Airlines and destinations

Griffing Flying Service offered scheduled passenger service to Sandusky until December 2013. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger service is Erie-Ottawa International Airport in Port Clinton.

Accidents and incidents

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for SKY PDF , effective 2009-08-27.[ dead link ]
  2. KSKY Griffing Sandusky Airport (Attempted access 5 May 2016 - page removed)
  3. Multimillion-dollar sports complex coming to Erie County (Accessed 5 May 2016)
  4. "Cessna 500 crash in Ohio (N688CF) | PlaneCrashMap.com". planecrashmap.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  5. "Piper PA-28-181 crash in Ohio (N8199D) | PlaneCrashMap.com". planecrashmap.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  6. "Commander Aircraft Company 114-B crash in Ohio (N114JG) | PlaneCrashMap.com". planecrashmap.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.