Griffing Sandusky Airport

Griffing Sandusky Airport
IATA: SKY – ICAO: KSKY – FAA LID: SKY
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Griffing-Sandusky Airport, Inc.
Serves Sandusky, Ohio
Elevation AMSL 580 ft / 177 m
Coordinates 41°26′00″N 082°39′08″W / 41.43333°N 82.65222°W / 41.43333; -82.65222
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18/36 2,593 790 Asphalt
9/27 3,559 1,085 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 112,100
Based aircraft 44

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 will replace the airport and will open in spring 2017 called the Cedar Point Sports Center.[3]

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 had 112,100 operations, average 307 per day: 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.[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.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for SKY (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-08-27.
  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)

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