Griffing Sandusky Airport

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 now has opened in spring 2017 called the Cedar Point Sports Center.[3]

Griffing Sandusky Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGriffing-Sandusky Airport, Inc.
ServesSandusky, Ohio
Elevation AMSL580 ft / 177 m
Coordinates41°26′00″N 082°39′08″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18/36 2,593 790 Asphalt
9/27 3,559 1,085 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations112,100
Based aircraft44

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. 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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