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Fairfield County Airport

39.75560°N
-82.65710°W
ARR / DAY
25
129.3%
DEP / DAY
32
118.3%

Fairfield County Airport (KLHQ) is a small general aviation airport located in Lancaster, OH, 23 mi south east of Columbus. It features 1 runway measuring 5,003 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 25 arrivals and 32 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

18h ago
Temp
74°F
Wind
4 kts
70°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KLHQ 031553Z AUTO 07004KT 10SM CLR 23/06 A3037 RMK AO2 SLP280 T02330056 TSNO

Runways

1 installed

5,003 FT MAX
10/28
5,003 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

10
51% of ops
201 land · 191 TO
28
49% of ops
191 land · 237 TO
Runway 10 carries 51% of operations (201 landings, 191 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 49%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

10 201 landings
UA 18%
28 191 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 10 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (37 UA events from 201 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy — hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
15.7
flights/day · 470 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 4pm · 6pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 15.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.3× weekday (5.8 vs 20.2 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here — top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (53% of 442 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-05-14
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.725
APCH 132.300
APCH 134.000
APCH 279.600
UNICOM 122.725
ASOS 118.375
CD/P 121.650
CLASS C/ 132.300
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZID
Mag var:
6° W
Fuel:
100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 10:05 UTC