Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport
MGY · KMGY · Dayton, Ohio · Montgomery County · map
Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Dayton, 10 miles south of Dayton, Ohio, 957 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive) and about 82 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 38,851 takeoffs and landings a year. About 57 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport?
Its FAA code is MGY, and its ICAO code is KMGY.
Where is Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport?
It is 10 miles south of Dayton, Ohio, 957 feet above sea level.
How long is the runway at Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport?
Its one runway, 02/20, is 5,000 feet long, asphalt.
Does Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive.
Are there flight schools at Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport?
6 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Higher Ground Helicopters of Cincinnati LLC and Soaring Society of Dayton INC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport?
6 pilot examiners and 16 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 Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport…
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MGY · ICAO KMGY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Dayton
- Elevation
- 957 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1957
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 5,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 02: PAPI, two lights on the left, 4,700 ft available for landing
- Runway 20: localizer with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights (MALS), threshold displaced 590 ft, 4,410 ft available for landing, road 25 ft high 540 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 119.4 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.85 | |
| Mgy and automated weather (ASOS) | 118.375 | |
| Danei and star | 134.45 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 937-885-2171.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, cargo handling, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Warren County/John Lane Field (8 nm south), Middletown Rgnl/Hook Field (9 nm southwest), Greene County/Lewis A Jackson Regional (12 nm northeast).
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 Ohio · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Activate mals runway 20; PAPI runway 02 and 20; medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency. Taxiway lights operates continuously sunset to sunrise.
- Prior cdn required.
- PAPI unusable beyond 7 degreess right of centerline.
- Approach slp 34:1 to dthr.
- Deer, birds, and otr wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Surface conditions unmon 3:30 pm to 7:00 am weekdays and all day weekends/holidays.
- Full pwr maintenance runups prohibited in the hldg apn at the northwest corner of taxiway a 8:00 am to 5:00 pm weekdays.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
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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.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 60 |
| multi-engine | 10 |
| jets | 7 |
| helicopters | 5 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 38,851, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 937 |
| general aviation, travelling | 10,885 |
| general aviation, local | 27,008 |
| military | 21 |
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 Dayton from the FAA register
146 aircraft are registered to owners in Dayton, Ohio: 102 piston singles, 12 drones, 10 piston twins, 8 business jets, 4 helicopters. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Ohio.
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:
- Higher Ground Helicopters of Cincinnati LLC 6 aircraft · Miamisburg, 4 miles away Higher Ground Helicopters is a helicopter flight school based at Wright Brothers Airport (KMGY) in Miamisburg, Ohio, near Cincinnati.
- Soaring Society of Dayton INC 10 aircraft · Waynesville, 8 miles away
- Sierra Hotel Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Bellbrook, 8 miles away Sierra Hotel Aeronautics Group is a flying club based at Lanett Regional Airport in Alabama that offers aircraft rental and flight training to its members.
- Flying Neutrons LLC 6 aircraft · Lebanon, 9 miles away The Flying Neutrons is a member-owned, non-profit flying club founded in 1952 at Lebanon-Warren County Airport (I68) in Lebanon, Ohio.
- Middletown Regional Flight Training Institute LLC 4 aircraft · Middletown, 10 miles away Middletown Regional Flight Training Institute provides flight instruction and airplane rentals in the greater Cincinnati and Dayton region.
- Debonair N638S Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Beavercreek, 13 miles away
Repair stations in Dayton:
- Ge Aviation Systems LLC
- Projects Unlimited INC Projects Unlimited Inc.
- Techmetals INC
- U.S. Chrome CORP. of Ohio
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
6 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 6 for private pilot, 5 for commercial and instrument, 1 for airline transport pilot, 5 for flight instructor, 3 for sport pilot; 4 for airplanes, 2 for multi-engine airplanes, 2 for helicopters, 1 for balloons. Also nearby: 16 aviation medical examiners, 4 mechanic examiners, 1 airworthiness representative (manufacturing), 6 engineering representatives, 7 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 2 training center evaluators, 38 aircrew program designees, 1 training center examiner, 7 administrative pilot examiners.
- Brett Hunter private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes · Waynesville, OH (7 nm) · (513) 464-1151 · [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 (8 nm) · (513) 476-8359 · [email protected]
- Thomas Vearil private pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; helicopters · Warren County Airport · Lebanon, OH (8 nm) · (513) 827-0280 · [email protected]
- 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 (19 nm) · (513) 678-4197 · [email protected]
- Kevin Randall Henderson private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot; airplanes · Butler County Regional Airport · Hamilton, OH (19 nm) · (513) 332-7016 · [email protected]
- Steven Wolf private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · DeGraff, OH (46 nm) · (937) 935-5557 · [email protected]
All 88 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 · 21 since 1982, 3 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 Dayton 146 aircraft · 102 piston singles, 12 drones, 10 piston twins
- Sinclair Community College 8 aircraft in town
- Miami Valley Hospital 2 aircraft in town
- Core Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Buckeye Aircraft Holdings LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Higher Ground Helicopters of Cincinnati LLC 6 aircraft · flight school
- Soaring Society of Dayton INC 10 aircraft · flying club
- Sierra Hotel Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Ge Aviation Systems LLC · repair station
- Projects Unlimited INC · repair station
- Techmetals INC · repair station
- U.S. Chrome CORP. of Ohio · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 21 since 1982 · 3 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Ohio 1,877 since 1982 · 246 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Ohio 149 landing places
- Ohio 8,530 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MGY.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 21, 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.