Middletown Rgnl/Hook Field
MWO · KMWO · Middletown, Ohio · Butler County · map
Middletown Rgnl/Hook Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Middletown, 2 miles north of Middletown, Ohio, 651 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 6,100 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 81 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 40,050 takeoffs and landings a year.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
1 warning in force over this field:
- AIRMET SIERRA 3E: low cloud or poor visibility (IFR conditions) (due to ceilings below 1,000 ft, visibility below 3 miles, precipitation, mist).
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (CVG, 32 nm southwest), for use 08:00–15:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 300° at 19 kt; 6,000 ft: 310° at 23 kt, 15 °C; 9,000 ft: 320° at 20 kt, 9 °C; 12,000 ft: 310° at 18 kt, 3 °C; 18,000 ft: 300° at 26 kt, -6 °C.
1 temporary flight restriction within 50 nautical miles:
- 6/8029 Cincinnati, OH, Friday, October 9, 2026 through Monday, October 12, 2026 Local 27 nm southwest · a VIP movement · until 12 October
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
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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 1 departures from MWO in those twelve months, carrying 0 passengers in 8 seats (0% filled), to 1 destination on 1 airline.
| Where to | Flights | Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middletown Rgnl/Hook Field → Washington Dulles International MWO–IAD | 1 | 0 | Jet Aviation Flight... |
All 1 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.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MWO · ICAO KMWO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Middletown
- Elevation
- 651 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1946
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 6,100 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 3,026 × 160 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 05: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 30 ft high 771 ft from the end
- Runway 23: LOCALIZER, PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 299 ft, tree 40 ft high 885 ft from the end
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 951 ft, trees 95 ft high 771 ft from the end
- Runway 26: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.85 | |
| Mwo and aWOS-3PT | 120.025 | |
| Danei and star | 134.45 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 513-422-3505.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 77 |
| multi-engine | 2 |
| helicopters | 2 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 40,050, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 3,600 |
| general aviation, travelling | 18,600 |
| general aviation, local | 17,800 |
| military | 50 |
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.
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 Middletown from the FAA register
41 aircraft are registered to owners in Middletown, Ohio: 32 piston singles, 5 balloons, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twin, 1 glider. 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.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- cargo handling, flight instruction, parachute jumping, aircraft rental
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Warren County/John Lane Field (8 nm southeast), Dayton/Wright Brothers Airport (9 nm northeast), Butler County Rgnl/Hogan Field (12 nm southwest).
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.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in Middletown, by their names on the register:
- Middletown Regional Flight Training Institute LLC 4 aircraft Middletown Regional Flight Training Institute is a flight school based at Middletown Regional Airport in Ohio.
Companies in the same town as this airport; 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, 4 for sport pilot; 4 for airplanes, 2 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for seaplanes, 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.
- 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 · brian@trapp.ltd
- Thomas Vearil private pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; helicopters · Warren County Airport · Lebanon, OH (8 nm) · (513) 827-0280 · tjv250r@msn.com
- 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 (12 nm) · (513) 678-4197 · helicopterdpe@gmail.com
- Kevin Randall Henderson private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot; airplanes · Butler County Regional Airport · Hamilton, OH (12 nm) · (513) 332-7016 · kevin_henderson13@outlook.com
- Brett Hunter private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes · Waynesville, OH (13 nm) · (513) 464-1151 · brett.hunter@earthlink.net
- Troy Macvey private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Milan, IN (43 nm) · (515) 509-7027 · troymacvey@gmail.com
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.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 1 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 05 and 23 operates continuously.
- Prior cdn required for transient hngr.
- White cones.
- White cones.
- Obstruction clnc slp 18:1 to dthr.
- Obstruction clnc slp 33:1 to dthr.
- Extensive paja.
- Deer, birds, and otr wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Ultralights enter/exit runway 08 traffic pattern from/to the north at lwr than rglr pattern altitude. Ultralights do not fly south of runway 26.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Middletown 41 aircraft · 32 piston singles, 5 balloons, 2 turboprops
- Middletown Regional Flight Training Institute LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Butler County Warbirds INC 4 aircraft in town
- Start Skydiving LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Middletown Regional Flight Training Institute LLC 4 aircraft · flight school
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) 1 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc.
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 10 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Ohio 1,877 since 1982 · 249 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 8,518 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MWO.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 9, 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.