Highland County
HOC · KHOC · Hillsboro, Ohio · Highland County · map
Highland County is a public-use airport owned by Highland County Commissioners, 3 miles ese of Hillsboro, Ohio, 977 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,520 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HOC · ICAO KHOC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Highland County Commissioners
- Elevation
- 977 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 700 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,520 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: trees 12 ft high 261 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 19 ft high 235 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Hoc and aWOS-3 | 118.175 | |
| Portsmouth and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.575 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 937-393-9038.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Hillsboro from the FAA register
25 aircraft are registered to owners in Hillsboro, Ohio: 16 piston singles, 7 helicopters, 2 drones. 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 · 7 since 1982, 3 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 and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23; PAPI runway 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Available H24 self service via credit card.
- +58 feet tree, 81 feet dist, 143 feet R; +5-18 feet trees and brush, 150 feet dist, 250 feet L/R.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.