Grimes Field

This article is about an airport in Ohio. For the airport in Pennsylvania, see Grimes Airport.
Grimes Field
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: I74
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Urbana
Serves Urbana, Ohio
Elevation AMSL 1,068 ft / 326 m
Coordinates 40°07′57″N 083°45′13″W / 40.13250°N 83.75361°W / 40.13250; -83.75361
Website www.GrimesField.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
2/20 4,400 1,341 Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 23,480
Based aircraft 36

Grimes Field (FAA LID: I74) is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district of Urbana, a city in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.[1] Named for Warren G. Grimes, it is also known as Urbana Municipal Airport and it serves general aviation traffic.[2]

The airport is home to the Champaign Aviation Museum.[3] It also houses a project to rebuild a World War II era B-17 Medium Bomber called the Champaign Lady. The B-17 Project website shows the progress and has a live web camera in the hangar where the aircraft is stored. Volunteers work on it Monday through Saturday.[4] As of 01Feb2015 the airport manager is Louis M Driever.

Facilities and aircraft

Grimes Field covers an area of 329 acres (133 ha) at an elevation of 1,068 feet (326 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,400 by 100 feet (1,341 x 30 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 7, 2007, the airport had 23,480 aircraft operations, an average of 64 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% military and 2% air taxi, At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 72% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 6% helicopter and 11% ultralight.[1]

Events

Grimes Field is host airport to the Mid-Eastern Regional Fly In (MERFI) every September 10th and 11th.Planes from all over Ohio and Some parts of the nation fly in.Usually there is a WW2 bomber present.Some years it is a B-17 some years it is a B-25.

Grimes Field is a component of the National Aviation Heritage Area.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for I74 (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. ↑ History of Warren Grimes and Grimes Field
  3. ↑ Champaign Aviation Museum
  4. ↑ B-17 Project
  5. ↑ "Home of the Wright Brothers". National Aviation Heritage Area. Retrieved 16 March 2012.

External links

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