Fairfield County
LHQ · KLHQ · Lancaster, Ohio · Fairfield County · map
Fairfield County is a public-use airport owned by Fairfield CO Commissioners, 3 miles northwest of Lancaster, Ohio, 868 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 5,003 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LHQ · ICAO KLHQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Fairfield CO Commissioners
- Elevation
- 868 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1948
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 5,003 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 40 ft high 590 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, gnd 5 ft high 266 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.65 | |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) · Class C (secondary) arriving from headings 100 to 279 | 132.3 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.0 | |
| Lhq and automated weather (ASOS) | 118.375 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 740-681-1097.
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 Lancaster from the FAA register
38 aircraft are registered to owners in Lancaster, Ohio: 31 piston singles, 5 drones, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin. 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 · 11 since 1982, 0 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
- Occasional deer, birds, and otr wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 10 and 28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 10 and 28 operates continuously.
- Prior cdn required for transient hngr.
- Unatndd thanksgiving, christmas, and new years.
- +5 feet berm, 160 feet dist, 110 feet R.
- Calm wind runway.
- Extensive flight training.
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.