Blue Grass Airport
LEX · KLEX · Lexington, Kentucky · Fayette County · map
Blue Grass Airport is a public-use airport owned by Lexington-Fayette CO Arpt Brd, 4 miles west of Lexington, Kentucky, 980 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 7,004 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KLEX · observed 2:54 pm EDT (18:54 UTC), 61 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 4 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 71°F (22°C), dew point 38°F (3°C)
- Altimeter 30.10 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 1:20 pm EDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the east at 10 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 7:00 pm EDT (23:00 UTC): wind light and variable, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Wed 9:00 am EDT (13:00 UTC): wind from the southwest at 10 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, scattered clouds at 25,000 feet VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KLEX 061854Z VRB04KT 10SM CLR 22/03 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP187 T02170033
TAF KLEX 061720Z 0618/0718 09010KT P6SM SKC FM062300 VRB04KT P6SM SKC FM071300 23010KT P6SM SCT250
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LEX · ICAO KLEX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lexington-Fayette CO Arpt Brd
- Elevation
- 980 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1944
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 7,004 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 36 ft high 2,000 ft from the end
- Runway 22: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 54 ft high 1,980 ft from the end
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the right
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 126.3 | Lexington |
| Clearance delivery | 118.65 | |
| Clearance delivery | 127.425 | |
| Clearance delivery | 132.35 | Lexington |
| Ground | 121.9 | Lexington |
| Tower | 119.1 | Lexington |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace · Departure procedure (JIVAD) arriving from headings 040 to 220 | 120.15 | Lexington |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 221 to 039 | 120.75 | Lexington |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) arriving from headings 040 to 220 | 133.4 | Lexington |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Lexington |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 859-203-5240.
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Aircraft registered in Lexington from the FAA register
194 aircraft are registered to owners in Lexington, Kentucky: 124 piston singles, 17 business jets, 15 helicopters, 10 piston twins, 7 weight-shift and powered parachutes. 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 Kentucky.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 26 since 1982, 4 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
- Ics/index D rescue and firefighting (ARFF) cpblitys upon required.
- Flight notification service (adcus) available.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) 316 feet in length by 170 feet in width starting 186 feet der 04.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) 283 feet in length by 170 feet in width starting 307 feet der 22.
- Runway 09/27 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Durg L pattern do not mistake runway 27 for runway 22. Wall mural bfr threshold gives illusion of a bridge.
- Taxiway B and taxiway F west of taxiway F3; not available for schedule air carrier operations more than 9 passenger seats or unscheduled air carrier at least 31 passenger seats; closed to aircraft with wingspan greater than 78 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.