Cleveland-Hopkins International
CLE · KCLE · Cleveland, Ohio · Cuyahoga County · map
Cleveland-Hopkins International is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cleveland, 9 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, 800 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 06R/24L, is 9,953 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CLE · ICAO KCLE
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cleveland
- Elevation
- 800 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee · customs available · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1938
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06R/24L | 9,953 × 150 ft | Concrete, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 06L/24R | 9,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 6,018 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, fair | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 06R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 1,923 ft, 8,029 ft available for landing, trees 80 ft high 3,010 ft from the end
- Runway 24L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 06L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), trees 97 ft high 3,689 ft from the end
- Runway 24R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 10: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 51 ft high 262 ft from the end
- Runway 28: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), pole 25 ft high 1,252 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Digital ATIS Arrival | 127.85 | Cleveland |
| Digital ATIS Departure | 132.375 | Cleveland |
| Clearance delivery | 119.25 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.6 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.75 | |
| Clearance delivery When tower closed | 121.85 | County |
| Clearance delivery When tower closed | 121.9 | Lakefront |
| Clearance delivery | 125.05 | Cleveland |
| Clearance delivery | 125.65 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 126.8 | |
| Ground | 121.7 | Cleveland |
| Tower | 124.5 | Cleveland |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 187 to 006 | 118.6 | Akron-Canton |
| Class B airspace · Approach and departure arriving from headings 340 to 200 | 125.35 | Cleveland |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace · Huuvr and star arriving from headings 007 to 186 | 125.5 | Akron-Canton |
| Class B airspace · Approach and departure arriving from headings 201 to 339 | 126.35 | Cleveland |
| Approach · Brwnz and star · Roknn and star | 126.55 | Cleveland |
| Approach and departure | 128.35 | Mansfield |
| Departure · Departure procedure (GTLKE) · Departure procedure (PFLYD) | 128.25 | Cleveland |
| Departure procedure (CAVVS) · Departure · Departure procedure (KKIDS) | 135.875 | Cleveland |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Cleveland |
| Cle and vot | 110.4 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 216-264-9022.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Cleveland from the FAA register
387 aircraft are registered to owners in Cleveland, Ohio: 346 business jets, 22 piston singles, 7 turboprops, 5 helicopters, 2 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Ohio.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 25 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
- Deer, coyotes, and birds inclg waterfowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Emas - engineered materials arresting system, 170 feet in wide an X 275 feet length, located at departure end of runway 10.
- Emas - engineered materials arresting system, 170 feet in wide 365 feet in length, located at departure end of runway 28.
- Runway 6L also has lighted power line 99 feet above runway end, 4266 feet from runway end, 966 feet L of centerline, 41:1 obstruction clnc slope.
- Unusable beyond 8 degreess L and R of centerline.
- Pad 2 and taxilane Y1 rstrd to group II aircraft less than 79 feet wingspan.
- Taxiways closed OCT-APR to support deicing operations: taxiway M; taxiway J2; taxiway M1 between taxiway L and taxiway J1; taxiway M2 between taxiway L and taxiway J1.
- Ramp area concourse D between gates D1, D28 closed except aircraft wingspan less than 86 feet.
- Pad 3 bays 1-5 closed to aircraft with wingspan over 134 feet.
- Pad 3 bay 6 closed to aircraft with wingspan over 94 feet.
- Txl H closed to aircraft with wingspan ovr 171 feet.
- Taxiway F closed to aircraft with wingspan ovr 118 feet.
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.