(The Lake Development Authority and Lake County are the sponsors of the Lake County Executive Airport since 2014. It is located at 1969 Lost Nation Road, Willoughby, OH 44094 and serves as an economic driver providing $9.4 million annually for Lake County, Ohio.
The airport is a public use, level 1, general aviation, reliever airport that services both general aviation aircraft and charter jets. Aircraft parking is available in two airport owned and four privately owned hangars as well as outdoor parking on the ramp.
The airport consists of nearly 380 acres at an elevation of 626 feet. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces; runway 5/23 is 5,028 by 100 feet and runway 10/28 is 4,272 by 100 feet. There are approximately 90 based aircraft with a mix of single, multi and jet engines and has 45,085 operations per year.)
The Lake County Executive Airport is currently working with Classic Jet Center as its Fixed-Base Operator.
(Operations at the airport are supported by GPS approach with vertical guidance, an Automated Weather Observation Station (AWOS III), a full service Fixed Base Operator (FBO) Classic Jet Center providing 100LL and Jet fuel, major airframe/powerplant repairs, avionics, aircraft tie down and hangar storage.
Currently the airport is home to Classic Jet Center, providing charter aircraft services, Vector Aviation, providing flight instruction, Kucera International, an international digital mapping company and Kelly Aerospace, specializing in research and development for aerospace manufacturing. The airport is also home to the popular Lost Nation Sports Park, which is an indoor/outdoor complex of athletic facilities and houses the Player’s Club Restaurant.)
An 88-acre dairy farm owned by the Osborn family is first used as a flying field
The airport is established on land owned by Oscar Sutton. A group of airplane owners relocates from Old Lake County Airport. Original facilities include a 10,000-square-foot hangar and three turf runways
Operated by Civil Air Patrol. The airport grows; land acquisition totals 250 acres.
Operated by General Aviation, Inc., founded by William McNeely
Runway 9-27 is paved and extended to 2,500 feet. Three hangars are constructed.
Runway 5-23 is constructed.
A control tower is constructed and runways 9-27 and 5-23 are extended to 5,000 feet by 100 feet.
Kent Smith bequeaths the airport to Case-Western Reserve University. The university decides to sell the airport.
The airport is designated a reliever for Cleveland Hopkins as part of the Airport Improvement Program.
The City of Willoughby purchases the airport.
City of Willoughby asks Lake County to take over airport assets.
Transfer of real estate from the City of Willoughby to LCOPEDA. FAA designates Lake County and LCOPEDA to become co- sponsors of the airport.
Airport recieves FAA grants for improvements including repairs to Runway 5-23 and a master plan. The airport recieves an ODOT grant for 2016 repairs to Runway 10-28
The airport is officially renamed Lake County Executive Airport
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