Cincinnati Municipal Airport Lunken Field |
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner | City of Cincinnati | ||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Cincinnati, Ohio | ||||||||||||||||||
Hub for | Ultimate Air Shuttle | ||||||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 483 ft / 147 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°06′12″N 084°25′07″W / 39.10333°N 84.41861°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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Commercial Operations | 31,750 |
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Peak Daily Departures | 13 |
Cincinnati Municipal Airport – Lunken Field (Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport) (IATA: LUK, ICAO: KLUK, FAA LID: LUK) is a public airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, three miles (5 km) southeast of Downtown Cincinnati. It is owned by the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. The airport mostly serves private aircraft and the fleets of local corporations. Also, the airport serves a limited amount of commercial flights and is the second largest airport serving Cincinnati after Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. It is known as Lunken Airport or Lunken Field, after Eshelby Lunken. It is bounded by US Route 50 (historic Columbia Parkway and Eastern Avenue) to the west, US Route 52 (Kellogg Avenue) and the Ohio River to the south, the Little Miami River (which originally flowed through the airfield but was diverted) to the east, and Ohio Route 125 (Beechmont Avenue) to the north. The airport is headquarters and hub for Cincinnati-based public charter airline Ultimate Air Shuttle, serving 5 destinations throughout the eastern United States with 13 peak daily departures. Lunken is also home to small charter airline Flamingo Air and its accompanying aviation school.
Cincinnati Municipal Airport, also known as Lunken Airport, was Cincinnati's airline airport until 1947. It is in the Little Miami River valley near Columbia, the site of the first Cincinnati-area settlement in 1788. When the 1,000-acre (400 ha) airfield opened in 1925 it was the largest municipal airfield in the world.