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).
Weather right now KMGY · observed 2:53 pm EDT (18:53 UTC), 63 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the southeast (140°) at 4 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 67°F (19°C), dew point 40°F (4°C)
- Altimeter 30.11 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KMGY 061853Z AUTO 14004KT 10SM CLR 19/04 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP194 T01940044
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 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
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1957
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. 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.
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 Dayton from the FAA register
147 aircraft are registered to owners in Dayton, Ohio: 102 piston singles, 12 drones, 10 piston twins, 9 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Ohio.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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.