Bluffton Airport
5G7 · Bluffton, Ohio · Hancock County · map
Bluffton Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Village of Bluffton, 1 mile southeast of Bluffton, Ohio, 851 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 4,126 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5G7
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Village of Bluffton
- Elevation
- 851 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; weekends, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1947
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 4,126 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: trees 53 ft high 633 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · UNICOM mnt iregly. |
| Approach and departure | 120.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Bluffton from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Bluffton, Ohio: 8 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Ohio.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23; PAPI runway 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- UNICOM mnt iregly.
- PAPI unusable beyond 9 degreess right of centerline.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.