Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
CVG · KCVG · Covington, Kentucky · Boone County · map
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International is a public-use airport owned by Kenton County Arpt Board, 8 miles southwest of Covington, Kentucky, 896 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 12,001 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 11 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The receiver network heard 79 different aircraft arrive or depart here in the last seven days. The FAA counts about 164,186 takeoffs and landings a year. About 4,391,712 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
Its FAA code is CVG, and its ICAO code is KCVG.
Where is Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
It is 8 miles southwest of Covington, Kentucky, 896 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
The longest of its 4 runways, 09/27, is 12,001 feet long.
Does Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International have a control tower?
Yes, it has a control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A.
Where can you fly nonstop from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
Airline flights go to 8 airports, the busiest of them Chicago O'Hare International, Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International, John F Kennedy International, Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold-Chamberlain, Newark Liberty International. Every route
Are there flight schools at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
6 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Schulte Flyers LLC and Socks Flyers LLC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International?
7 pilot examiners and 11 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International…
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CVG · ICAO KCVG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Kenton County Arpt Board
- Elevation
- 896 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 and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1944
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 12,001 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18C/36C | 11,000 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18L/36R | 10,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18R/36L | 8,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 11,640 ft available for landing
- Runway 27: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 18C: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 36C: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 18L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 36R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 18R: ILS with DME, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 36L: ILS with DME, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Digital ATIS · Cvg and automated weather (ASOS) Arrival | 134.375 | Cincinnati |
| Digital ATIS Departure | 135.3 | Cincinnati |
| Clearance delivery | 120.4 | Cincinnati |
| Clearance delivery When luk tower closed | 124.9 | Lunken |
| Clearance delivery | 126.25 | |
| Ground | 121.7 | Cincinnati |
| Tower Runway 09/27, 18C/36C | 118.3 | Cincinnati |
| Tower Runway 18L/36R | 118.975 | Cincinnati |
| Tower Runway 18R/36L | 133.325 | Cincinnati |
| Approach · Jakie and star arriving from headings 090 to 269 | 119.7 | Cincinnati |
| Class B airspace · Approach and departure arriving from headings 001 to 180 | 121.0 | Cincinnati |
| Approach arriving from headings 270 to 089 | 123.875 | Cincinnati |
| Class B airspace · Departure · Approach and departure arriving from headings 181 to 360 | 128.7 | Cincinnati |
| Departure arriving from headings 001 to 180 | 126.65 | Cincinnati |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Cincinnati |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 859-414-0353.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- air freight, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Cincinnati Muni/Lunken Field (12 nm east), Butler County Rgnl/Hogan Field (20 nm north), Clermont County (21 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Kentucky · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) index east available upon required.
- West 4200 feet and east 750 feet concrete; remainder asphalt overlay.
- Closed to passenger aircraft with wingspan gtr than 140 feet.
- Noise sens area north and south of airport; runway asgn 10:00 pm to 7:00 am based on noise abatement.
- Successive or simul departure from runway 18L, 18C, 36L, 36C and 36R apvd with course dvrg bgn no further than 2 MI from eor due to noise abatement.
- Taxiways rstrd to 15 mph or less with wingspan 214 feet or more.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of the airport.
- Ramp control: ramp 1N / 1S txl and ramp 2N / 2S txl - 130.90, ramp 3 txl and north txl - 130.375; dhl ramp control: 129.475; amz ramp control: 130.5.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
Within ten miles
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 62,743 departures from CVG in those twelve months, carrying 4,419,454 passengers in 5,641,325 seats (78% filled), to 193 destinations (31 abroad) on 47 airlines.
All 193 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| multi-engine | 3 |
| jets | 8 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 164,186, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 153,942 |
| air taxi and commuter | 5,160 |
| general aviation, travelling | 4,922 |
| general aviation, local | 105 |
| military | 57 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Covington from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Covington, Kentucky: 4 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 glider, 1 business jet. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Kentucky.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Schulte Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Union, 7 miles away
- Socks Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Southgate, 11 miles away
- Lunken Flight Training Center LLC 10 aircraft · Cincinnati, 14 miles away
- University of Cincinnati 3 aircraft · Cincinnati, 14 miles away University of Cincinnati Clermont College is a regional campus of the University of Cincinnati located in Batavia Township, Ohio.
- Aeroclub Management LLC 2 aircraft · Cincinnati, 14 miles away
- Queen City Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Cincinnati, 14 miles away Queen City Flying Service is a flight school in Cincinnati, Ohio that offers flight instruction from beginner to professional levels, aircraft rental, and flight reviews.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
7 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 7 for private pilot, 6 for commercial and instrument, 1 for airline transport pilot, 6 for flight instructor, 4 for sport pilot; 5 for airplanes, 3 for multi-engine airplanes, 2 for seaplanes, 2 for helicopters, 1 for balloons. Also nearby: 11 aviation medical examiners, 3 mechanic examiners, 1 airworthiness representative (manufacturing), 5 engineering representatives, 6 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 2 training center evaluators, 37 aircrew program designees, 1 training center examiner, 7 administrative pilot examiners.
- James Matthew Johnson private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor; helicopters · Butler County Airport · Hamilton, OH (20 nm) · (513) 678-4197 · [email protected]
- Kevin Randall Henderson private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot; airplanes · Butler County Regional Airport · Hamilton, OH (20 nm) · (513) 332-7016 · [email protected]
- Troy Macvey private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Milan, IN (23 nm) · (515) 509-7027 · [email protected]
- Brian W Trapp private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, balloons · Warren County Airport · Lebanon, OH (31 nm) · (513) 476-8359 · [email protected]
- Thomas Vearil private pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; helicopters · Warren County Airport · Lebanon, OH (31 nm) · (513) 827-0280 · [email protected]
- Brett Hunter private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes · Waynesville, OH (37 nm) · (513) 464-1151 · [email protected]
- Paul Skjeveland private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Deer Run Airpark · Campbellsburg, KY (39 nm) · (507) 382-2742 · [email protected]
All 80 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 34 since 1982, 4 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Covington 7 aircraft · 4 piston singles, 1 piston twins, 1 gliders
- Schulte Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Socks Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Lunken Flight Training Center LLC 10 aircraft · flight school
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 5,001 flights in twelve months · Envoy Air, Republic Airline
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 3,542 flights in twelve months · Delta Air Lines Inc., Frontier Airlines Inc.
- John F Kennedy International (JFK) 2,709 flights in twelve months · Endeavor Air Inc., Republic Airline
- Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold-Chamberlain (MSP) 2,321 flights in twelve months · Sun Country Airlines d/b/a MN Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc.
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 2,177 flights in twelve months · GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express, Endeavor Air Inc.
- Charlotte/Douglas International (CLT) 2,097 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., PSA Airlines Inc.
- Miami International (MIA) 2,038 flights in twelve months · ABX Air Inc, Envoy Air
- Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) 1,973 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., ABX Air Inc
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 34 since 1982 · 4 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Kentucky 702 since 1982 · 112 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Kentucky 60 landing places
- Kentucky 2,984 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CVG.json.
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 27, 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.