Ruhes Airport
R47 · Leipsic, Ohio · Putnam County · map
Ruhes Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles west of Leipsic, Ohio, 801 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 4,455 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA R47
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 801 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sunday, prior arngmt
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1985
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,455 × 65 ft | Asphalt, poor | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 27: ant 38 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Leipsic from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Leipsic, Ohio: 9 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 2 drones. 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 · 1 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
- Provided obstructions in approach surface are removed/lwrd or threshold displaced to provide 20:1 approach slp.
- Extensive crop dusting operations with no traffic pattern; most takeoffs to west and landings to east.
- Prior cdn required for transient hngr.
- Prior cdn required for tie downs.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to 360 degrees green threshold lights; south edge lights 20 feet from runway edge.
- Faded.
- Faded.
- Non-standard basic due to misg runway nrs and small centerline.
- Non-standard basic due to misg runway nrs and small centerline.
- East 2500 an X 30 feet fair; rmng poor due to raveling and loose stones.
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.