Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport

Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport
Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport
IATA: MFD – ICAO: KMFD – FAA: MFD
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Mansfield
Serves	Mansfield, Ohio
Elevation AMSL	1,297 ft / 395 m
Runways
Helipads
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations	33,191
Based aircraft	80
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

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Coordinates: 40°49′17″N 82°31′0″W / 40.82139°N 82.51667°W / 40.82139; -82.51667

Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport (IATA: MFD, ICAO: KMFD, FAA LID: MFD) is a city-owned, joint civil-military, public-use airport located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Mansfield, a city in Richland County, Ohio, United States.^[1]

[edit] Airport facilities and aircraft utilization

Airport terminal building at MFD.

Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport covers an area of 2,340 acres (947 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 14/32 measuring 9,000 x 150 ft (2,744 x 46 m) and 5/23 measuring 6,795 x 150 ft (2,071 x 46 m). It also has one helipad with a 24 x 24 ft (7 x 7 m) asphalt surface.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 33,191 aircraft operations, an average of 90 per day: 77% general aviation, 14% air taxi, 9% military and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 80 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 4% jet and 10% military.^[1]

[edit] Military facilities

The airport is also home to the Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base and the 179th Airlift Wing (179 AW), an Ohio Air National Guard unit operationally-gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC). The unit consists of approximately 1000 personnel, of which approximately 300 are full-time Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) and Air Reserve Technician (ART) personnel and the remaining 760 are traditional part-time air national guardsmen. The wing has been active at Mansfield Lahm since its establishment in 1948, originally operating a variety of fighter aircraft until 1976 when it transitioned to an airlift mission with C-130 Hercules aircraft. The wing currently flies the C-130H version of the Hercules and has performed service during Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

Due to BRAC 2005, the 179 AW will lose all of its C-130H aircraft by late summer 2010. The aircraft are scheduled to be dispersed to various active Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard C-130H units at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, and Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. However, due to Mansfield Lahm ANGB's superior record, and the urgent actions by state and local officials, reconsiderations were made and the base was incorporated into the Ohio Air National Guard's future by receiving a bridge mission of flying the C-21 Learjet until they begin receiving the C-27J Spartan aircraft.

On 20 July 2008, the 179 AW continued its growth by the standing up of the 200th RED HORSE (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers) detachment. The Mansfield base has been assigned 200 Red Horse personnel in one detachment, with an additional 200 RED HORSE personnel slated to be assigned to Port Clinton, Ohio by 2010.^[2]^[3]